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| Begretova files a lawsuit against the FSB department for Kabardino-Balkaria |
| 2024-05-15 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] Activist from Kabardino-Balkaria Olga Begretova, who was subjected to forced fingerprinting by border guards, demanded that the refusal of the republican FSB Directorate of Russia to provide the information collected about her be declared illegal and that the department be obliged to eliminate the violations. As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on July 13, 2023, activist from Nalchik Olga Begretova complained about forced fingerprinting at the airport. According to her, border guards at the Minvod airport forced her to submit fingerprints and biological material, although these procedures are not provided for by law. The investigation did not find any violations in the actions of the border guards. Begretova sent a complaint to the military court in Pyatigorsk, in which she asked the court to oblige the investigation to open a case against the border guards at the Minvod airport, but the court recognized the actions of the border guards at the Minvod airport as legal, as well as the refusal to investigate this incident. In her complaint, Begretova noted that according to the law, fingerprints must be taken by people who are unable for health reasons to provide information about their identity, those suspected or accused of committing a crime, those arrested and those who have committed an offense, whose identity cannot be determined. Begretova noted that she did not consent to fingerprinting, and therefore it was carried out illegally. Begretova sent a statement to the FSB department for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic to find out why the border guards collected her data, but was refused to provide information. In this regard, on May 3, Begretova filed a lawsuit against the FSB in the Nalchik City Court. She asks that the refusal of the FSB department for Kabardino-Balkaria to provide her with information about the information received regarding her during operational search activities be declared illegal and that the violations be eliminated, the Memorial Human Rights Protection Center reported today*. In her lawsuit, Begretova points out that the refusal of the FSB Directorate for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic does not comply with the requirements of Article 24 of the Constitution and Article 5 of the Law “On Operational-Investigative Activities.” Thus, fingerprinting at the airport was carried out on November 18, 2022, and since the maximum period for procedural verification according to the law is 30 days and there is no information about the initiation of a criminal case, a decision should have been made to refuse to initiate a criminal case. She indicated that since no criminal case had been opened against her, she “has the right to receive information about herself within the limits permitted by the requirements of secrecy and excluding the possibility of disclosing state secrets,” and emphasized that she only asked to provide information about the information received about her, and non-operative materials. The consideration of Begretova’s claim against the Russian FSB department for Kabardino-Balkaria is scheduled for May 31, as follows from the information on the website of the Nalchik City Court. Related: Kabardino-Balkaria: 2024-05-12 Resident of Ingushetia suspected of justifying terrorism Kabardino-Balkaria: 2024-05-09 Shevchenko rejects the possibility of Nadezhda Kevorkova supporting terrorism Kabardino-Balkaria: 2024-05-08 Journalist Kevorkova was arrested on charges of justifying terrorism |
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