Republic investigation: In Chechnya, an anti -drug campaign was launched. Recognitions from the suspects are knocked out torture

As part of an anti -drug campaign launched in Chechnya, law enforcement officers torture forced the detainees to admit the use of prohibited substances (usually marijuana). This is stated in the investigation of Republic.

According to Republic interlocutors, the detainees are tortured with electricity, beaten and mainly forced to record video features in which they say that they are addicted to prohibited drugs. The source of the publication claims that the most similar cases were in October-November 2017.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced the creation of the operational headquarters to combat drug addiction in August 2017. Since then, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Chechnya, 507 drug crimes have been identified, 304 criminal cases have been instituted, 213 of which were sent to the court. At the same time, the department noted that "no violations during the detention or delivery of persons to law enforcement agencies were revealed and there were no complaints about the actions of employees of the internal affairs bodies."

Republic made a request to the regional department of the prosecutor's office and the Investigative Committee and to the administration of the Chechen government and is waiting for answers.

In early January, the head of the regional branch of the Memorial Oyub Titiev was detained in Chechnya, and then arrested for two months. He was accused of illegal storage of drugs (Article 228 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The head of the Memorial claims that the police officer threw him drugs.