RFE/RL: Reports Of Torture Trigger Protests In Daghestan
posted by circassiankama on March, 2010 as DAGESTAN
Reports Of Torture Trigger Protests In Daghestan
March 02, 2010
MAKHACHKALA, Daghestan -- Police today began detaining the leaders of
people protesting the reported torture of five murder suspects in
Makhachkala, the capital of Daghestan, RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service
reports.
Between
500-1,000 people participated in a 17-hour demonstration in Makhachkala
on March 1 to protest reports that five suspects in the June 2009
murder of Daghestan's interior minister, Lieutenant General Adilgirey
Magomedtagirov, were subjected to torture so that they would confess to
the murder.
The protesters dispersed after Gadzhi Makhachev,
Daghestan's representative in the Russian government, assured them he
would look into the reports and ensure that the men were not mistreated.
But the demonstration resumed early today.
Vladimir
Markin, an investigator in the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office,
denied on March 1 that the detained men were being mistreated during
the investigation.
Islamic militants in Daghestan have posted a
video on the Internet showing a sniper shooting Magomedtagirov as he
left a Makhachkala restaurant after a wedding party.
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