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| Former FSB officer complains about threats to relatives in Dagestan |
| 2023-01-06 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] Security forces are putting pressure on the relatives of Emran Navruzbekov, a former FSB officer from Dagestan, who has requested political asylum in Europe, Navruzbekov himself said. The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that former FSB operative Emran Navruzbekov, who left Russia, in an interview with Vladimir Osechkin, head of the human rights project Gulagu.Net, stated that the department's employees were involved in terrorist attacks and staged special operations in Dagestan, where he served for a long time. Navruzbekov requested political asylum in Europe. On December 31, 2022, Navruzbekov reported that after the interview was released, his wife's relatives and relatives of his mother were detained in Dagestan . Navruzbekov asked the security forces not to touch his relatives. Emran Navruzbekov said that pressure on relatives who remained in Dagestan continues. So, according to him, the other day one of the security officials came to his mother-in-law. "He, without a warrant, without a court order, asked where I and her daughter were, took her phone, studied the records and calls," Kavkaz.Realii quoted Navruzbekov as saying. According to him, before that, another security official "took my mother-in-law to Magaramkent, where she was interrogated." The former security official also said that the security forces contacted him directly, and suggested that they "want to turn the situation around" as if he were with militants in Syria. In particular, according to him, one of the security officials asked Navruzbekov if he was praying. Emran Navruzbekov noted that he asked "not to touch relatives." At the same time, Navruzbekov stressed that "there is no limitless pressure that could be exerted on an ordinary family," since there are "many influential people" among his relatives. The website and social networks of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Dagestan, as well as the website of the FSB of Russia, do not contain information regarding Emran Navruzbekov's version of the persecution of his relatives by security forces. |
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