Human rights activists reported pressure on participants in the case

The Kazan Human Rights Center (KHC) announced pressure on victims in the criminal case of the notorious Dalniy police department. According to the KPTS, one of them was detained yesterday without “real grounds” and taken to the Yapeev police department, where they threatened to put him in a cell. The police deny these accusations.

The KPTS disseminated information according to which yesterday morning two plainclothes police operatives - a major and a senior lieutenant - detained a 25-year-old resident of Kazan, who is a victim in a torture case in the Dalniy department. “They arrived home, quickly showing their service IDs, and told the man that he was being detained and should be taken to the Yapeev police station,” the message says. According to human rights activists, the young man was put into a car “without a police livery” and taken to the department, where he was searched without his consent - his pockets were examined, his passport, mobile phone and watch were confiscated. “They said that I was detained and that I would now go to the cell,” the KPTs quoted the guy as saying. The police demanded to know about the events of February 14, when a certain theft occurred. Then, according to human rights activists, he was taken for examination to a drug dispensary. His lawyer arrived there after learning about the situation. “With the help of an administrative case on drug use, they intended to deprive him of his freedom. The lawyer, in the presence of doctors, asked a question about the procedural status of her ward. The operatives hesitated and said that the man was not detained, and they were inviting him to go to the police department,” says the KPTS. After that, the police began to argue which of them would issue a summons; both said, “I don’t have material on him.” As a result, the guy left with his defender.

The PCC does not report the name of the young man, and the investigative authorities do not name him either. In total, there are 14 victims in the Dalniy case. The guy, according to investigators, was taken to this department on the morning of March 6, 2012, they demanded that he confess to stealing a cell phone, they beat him, and then subjected him to violence.

“We associate today’s detention of the man with his participation in the “Dalniy” case as a victim, since the police officers had no real grounds for detaining him and taking him to the department,” said the head of the CPC, Igor Sholokhov. In a conversation with Kommersant, he noted that a corresponding application had already been submitted to the investigative department (ID) of the Investigative Committee for Tatarstan, as well as to the prosecutor’s office. Human rights activists ask for an investigation and, if evidence of pressure is confirmed, to take state protection measures. According to the KPTS, they are aware of another similar incident: earlier, traffic police inspectors stopped another victim at Dalniy, telling him that his orientation was similar to the robbery suspect.

It should be noted that human rights activists have already reported about pressure on the investigation in the Dalny case. They also informed the Investigative Committee about this and asked to take state protection measures. “Concerning threats to investigators, the statement of the KPTS was considered. We have given an explanation that there are no grounds for conducting an inspection,” Andrei Sheptytsky, senior assistant to the head of the Investigative Directorate, told Kommersant yesterday. Even earlier, the SU stated that there was no pressure on their colleagues.

Mr. Sheptytsky confirmed that his department had received a new statement from human rights activists about pressure on victims. The situation was commented to Kommersant by the head of the criminal investigation department of the Yapeev police department, Albert Zaripov, according to whom, the young man “was not detained or searched,” he was “invited to the department” for a conversation and this “has nothing to do with the Dalniy case.” . “We are doing our job. We have verification material about the theft, within the framework of which it was necessary to interview this citizen - by the way, he had a previous conviction. He's not a suspect yet. The citizen behaved inappropriately at the department. It seemed to us that he was under the influence of drugs, so we naturally decided to check it out,” he said. Albert Zaripov did not rule out that in this case the guy’s status as a victim in the “Dalny” case is used as a “cover.”

Andrey Smirnov

The victim remembered “Dalniy”