Behind the factory set

The judge of the Supreme Court of Chechnya German Alexandrov sentenced Suleiman Edigov to fourteen and a half years in prison with serving a sentence in a maximum regime colony. This was reported by the press service of the Interregional Committee against torture.

Edigov was found guilty of committing crimes provided for in Article 317 of the Criminal Code (an encroachment on the life of an employee of a law enforcement agency) and part 2 of article 222 (illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation or weapons committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy).

Human rights activists from the consolidated mobile group, representing the interests of the defendant, intend to appeal this decision, because they are sure that Edigov was forced to stipulate himself under torture.

During the process , Edigov held a hunger strike in protest against the bias of the judge .

According to the official documents of Edigov, they detained on September 12, 2012. However, in reality, he was abducted by the Chechen police on August 3 of that year in Urus-Martan. A few days before, he came from Sweden, where he lived since 2008 to visit relatives. In Sweden he had a wife and a young child.

As Edigov’s relatives established in his abduction were participated in the police department of the Kurchaloevsky, Achokhoy-Martan and Urus-Martan districts, as well as police officers of the 2nd battalion of the Republican Patrol Service named after Akhmat Kadyrov.

Initially, the abducted was taken to the village of Centor, and then sent to the OP "Kurchaloevsky". Oedigov was subjected to long -term torture with electric shock and beatings. Unable to withstand violence, the abducted signed "confessions." After that, he was transferred to the operational-search part of the Republican Ministry of Internal Affairs, where they kept it until he had traces of beatings. Only after that the detention of Edigov was formally formalized.

The first process was led by the judge of the Supreme Court of Chechnya Vakhid Abubakarov. In the course of the court, Edigov did not refuse "confessions", since the security forces promised him a short time if he did not complain about the abduction and torture. However, the prosecutor requested a colony for the defendant for the defendant. Then the accused spoke about the violence applied to him and demonstrated scars from torture in his hands.

Abubakarov decided to send the case for the investigation. After that, he began to receive threats from the Minister of Internal Affairs of Chechnya Ruslan Alkhanov. Referring to the pressure, the judge took self -settings on November 1, 2013. "During the judicial investigation, the court was provided with a set of consistent evidence confirming the arguments of the defendant Edigov S. S. that subordinates Alkhanov R. Sh., Operational police officers, 03/03/2012 illegally abducted him until 12.09.2012, wrapped with an aluminum wire to torture by electricity, and compelled to recognize recognition. The faults caused him for a long time that were not he who rotted, rotting the wounds of four and five fingers on their circumference, ”said Abubakarov’s decree on self -discharge.