In Gelendzhik, they are trying to be detained human rights defenders

On the night of Thursday in the Gelendzhika Internal Affairs Directorate (Krasnodar Territory), police officers tortured local human rights defenders. According to the New Gazeta with reference to the lawyer Sergei Bogdanov, thus the police tried to get the detainees from the confession in the extortion case. Members of the Gelendzhik human rights center Zufar Achilov, Vladimir Ivanov and Valery Semerges were detained on Tuesday, later their colleague Gagik Avanesyan was detained. All four are suspected of committing a crime under part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code (extortion on an especially large scale).

"Today I met in a cell, in a temporary detention center of the city of Gelendzhik with a detainee, arrested by Achilov Zufar. He said that torture had been used to him. He said that his hands were handed over to the hand over his arms, placed between the tables and pulled the Dyba simply, - Bogdan’s lawyer said News News The newspaper “On Thursday. - He was shown a pink phalloimitator, put it in his mouth, tried to put him in the anus. All this was the pretext of giving false testimonies. So that he admitted that he really made extortion on behalf of the environmental organization.”

The representative of the Internal Affairs Directorate of Gelendzhik Olga Kravtsov denies the fact of beating. “They had no visible beatings,” she told the correspondent of Novaya.

The detention of Gelendzhik human rights activists was preceded by the disclosure of the network of underground gaming clubs to which law enforcement officers related to. After that, Achilov, Ivanov, Semergey and Avvannesyan began to threaten arrest and reprisal. On Tuesday morning, the head of the Gelendzhik human rights center Vladimir Ivanov talked with Golenjik prosecutor Valery Golubenko in high colors that underground gaming establishments were operating in the city. In the evening of the same day, Ivanov was detained.

In addition to underground gaming clubs, detained human rights activists were engaged in active opposition to illegal construction. It is with this that the charge brought by him is connected. According to the Kuban Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the human rights activists were detained red-handed when trying to get two million rubles from an entrepreneur-developer in order not to raise the noise around the illegal construction.

Searches were held in the houses of public figures, and psychological pressure from law enforcement agencies is on loved ones.