As reported by our sources in Europe, on April 12, 2011, several hundred demonstrators gathered on a square in front of the Royal Palace in Brussels with protests against the slow murder of a Chechen refugee by Belgian police, Arbi Zarmayev, in a Democratic dungeon.
According to rough estimates, up to 400 protestors gathered in the rally. 200 policemen with special means to disperse peaceful demonstrations were already present at the protest site. The police said the demonstration was illegal and demanded to disperse.
The source stressed that the organizers of the rally filed a formal request to Belgian authorities to allow the rally. They did not receive any answer at all - neither prohibiting nor permitting, although the Belgian authorities were obliged by the law to notify the organizers in advance about their decision. It was an obvious provocation by the Belgian authorities. Such authorities demand from the others to abide to their laws, but brazenly flout all laws if they only can.
Arby Zarmayev's father, Ali, asked a human rights defender, Imran Ezhiyev, to appeal to the crowd to go home. Ali Zarmayev said he did not want other people to get into trouble because of his son, the beastly Democratic police may arrest them and commit the same atrocities as they did to his son.
After a failed demonstration, the family of Arbi Zarmayev, together with Imran Ezhiyev, went to the Belgium ministry of "justice". A deputy director general of Belgian prisons came out to them. On the question, why the family and a member of the Euro parliament are not allowed to visit Arbi, the official mockingly smiled, and replied that "this was the will of the Arbi Zarmayev, it was his right".
The female deputy prison chief was then asked: "Was the stuffing him with psychotropic drugs, the breaking his ribs, the cleaving his brow, the mutilating of his hands and feet also done on his own will? Is that also his right?" She could not say anything and hastily left.
The Support Group for Arbi Zarmayev sent to the Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe, Thomas Hammarberg, a request to intervene in the case of Zarmayev. Thomas Hammarberg visited Chechnya in 2008 and learnt the opinion of human rights defenders. After hearing their reports, he stated that there was a cause for concern, even if only one person was illegally detained and tortured in Chechnya.
In 2011, Thomas Hammarberg did not express any concern that the Chechen political refugee Arbi Zarmayev was illegally detained and tortured by beastly Belgian Democratic police in the heart of Europe. Thomas Hammarberg never answered the letter sent to him.
Kavkaz Center
