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2024-04-13 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Tajik Foreign Ministry condemns the torture of those accused in the Crocus terrorist attack case
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] Security forces must comply with the principles of international law in relation to those arrested in the case of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall and remember the presumption of innocence and the prohibition of torture, the head of the Tajik Foreign Ministry said.
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He also noted that the information campaign launched after the terrorist attack creates a negative perception of Tajiks.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on March 22, armed people broke into the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow, opened fire and committed arson. The FSB classified the incident as a terrorist attack. As of April 6, 11 people were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the terrorist attack. According to official data, as of April 5, 145 people were killed in the terrorist attack. The National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) stated that those detained during the counter-terrorism operation in Makhachkala and Kaspiysk were planning terrorist attacks; they were found with automatic weapons, ammunition and an improvised explosive device.
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Four people detained during the counter-terrorism operation in Dagestan supplied money and weapons to the participants in the attack on Crocus City Hall, and also prepared a terrorist attack themselves. Those detained in Dagestan were arrested until June 1 in the case of participation in a terrorist organization and illegal arms trafficking.
The Makhachkala-1 relocation operator is faced with a shortage of workers to remove garbage amid reports of mass detentions of migrants from Tajikistan after the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall. The mayor's office confirmed that there is a problem with garbage disposal. There is no labor shortage in Dagestan, and the employment of migrants in the field of waste removal opens up opportunities for financial fraud, analysts told the Caucasian Knot.
As a result of raids by security forces after the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, 30 migrants in Krasnodar, 87 people in the Volgograd region, 46 citizens of Central Asia in the Rostov region, seven citizens of Uzbekistan in Ingushetia and a group of foreign students in Astrakhan were ordered to leave Russia. Some of them are ordered to leave Russia on their own, others will be forcibly expelled, it follows from the reports of security officials.
Russian security forces must comply with the requirements of the law, norms and principles of international law, especially with regard to the prohibition of torture and ill-treatment of detainees, as well as the presumption of innocence, the head of the Tajik Foreign Ministry, Sirojiddin Mukhriddin, said at a government meeting, speaking about the investigation into the terrorist attack in Crocus, reported today Lenta.ru.
“Demonstration in the open information space of footage of the detention of alleged perpetrators of a terrorist act with the use of torture in the form of bodily mutilation is unacceptable. The price of a confession obtained in this way is well known to everyone,” the Asia Plus website quotes the minister as saying.
According to the head of the Foreign Ministry, “it is impossible to allow the formation of an atmosphere of hatred, xenophobia and racism against citizens of foreign countries in the information space of the CIS countries.” “As a result of an ill-conceived information campaign, a negative perception is being formed towards citizens of Tajikistan and Tajiks, which is unacceptable,” said the head of the Tajik Foreign Ministry.
Sirojiddin Mukhriddin added that he hopes for an impartial investigation into the case of the terrorist attack in Crocus. “Everyone must be punished: the organizers, the perpetrators, the accomplices, and those who ordered this horrific crime,” Mukhriddin said.
As follows from the video recordings of the detention of those accused of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, which were published online, in particular in the Telegram channel “Raise the Periscope,” the arrests were carried out in a non-residential area, in the forest. One of the detainees, kneeling on a cardboard thrown in the mud, said that he was found online and offered money for a terrorist attack; at first the amount was 500 thousand rubles, then a million. The faces of the security forces are not visible in the recording. Another video showed footage of security forces cutting off part of a detainee’s ear, after which they tried to push the cut-off part into the mouth of the detainee lying on the ground.
After the video footage was released, human rights activists issued a statement pointing out the unacceptability of torture.
“The direct responsibility of law enforcement agencies is to prosecute crimes and prevent them. To do this, criminal justice systems in many countries, including Russia, have developed detailed rules, the purpose of which is to rely on the law, preserve the law and civility, and prevent justice from turning into lynching and revenge. Part of these rules is the prohibition of torture and ill-treatment, regardless of whether the criminal is before the security forces or not. The prohibition of torture is a guarantee against savagery and a prerequisite for a fair trial and punishment.
Torture as a method of work turns law enforcement agencies into a machine for production of violence and destruction of law. Compliance with the prohibition of torture should be monitored by higher authorities - courts, prosecutors, investigative bodies, etc. The lack of reaction on their part is an indicator of tacit approval of torture and violence," says a statement dated March 25, published on the website Foundation "Public Verdict"*.
They pointed out that torture, and especially its publication, is not equal to the fight against terrorism. “A cut off ear and a detainee being forced to eat his own ear, electric shock torture and shots of lowered pants, beaten suspects with traces of blood and unconscious in court cages, the remains of tape and bags on detainees - this is the video with which government agencies report to the public about their work in prosecuting terrorism. But this is just an illusion of the effectiveness of law enforcement agencies. These images simply make clear what is well known to all Russian human rights organizations. We are shown disgusting practices of torture and treatment of criminals, encouraging the demand of part of society and politicians to just such a barbaric reprisal against terrorists.
Many people perceive this ostentatious cruelty as a disgusting attempt to demonstrate their determination and hide the failure of the security forces in preventing a terrorist attack and the lack of effective actions in the first hours of the tragedy. Anti-terrorism is not equal to sophisticated and barbaric mockery of terrorists. Effective anti-terrorism is equal to preventing the massacre of people, prevention, identifying terrorist networks and building effective security systems. Anti-terror means the inevitability of punishment for the perpetrators, organizers and customers. There is a demand for precisely such actions in our society. This is precisely what we do not see either now or in the investigation of past terrorist acts,” emphasizes the statement, which was signed by representatives of the human rights project “OVD-Info”*, the Center for the Protection of Human Rights “Memorial”*, the Foundation “Public Verdict”*, human rights group "Citizen. Army.Pravo"* and other organizations.
Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova subsequently responded to the torture. “Despite the fact that the detention of criminals can be in a very serious form, and the criminal law provides that actions during detention associated with causing harm do not entail liability, the use of torture against detainees and accused persons is completely unacceptable. Any procedural operational actions must be carried out in accordance with with the law,” Interfax quoted her as saying on March 26.
The terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk was the largest in 30 years in the Moscow region. From 1999 to the events at Crocus City Hall, there were five terrorist attacks there, each of which killed more than 40 people. Before the terrorist attack at Crocus, the largest number of deaths, 130 people, was attributed to the seizure of the Theater Center on Dubrovka.
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