Republic: During the anti -drug campaign in Chechnya, people were tortured

Chechen police arranged anti -drug raids, during which dozens of people were delayed. Some of them were tortured and forced to confess to offenses related to drug use. This was reported by Republic.

According to the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a total of 507 drug crimes were identified, 213 criminal cases were sent to the court. Republic has analyzed 67 decisions of ships made in August 2017, and found common features in them. The defendants, according to the case file, cut and dried several sheets of wild hemp. They were detained in the same way: the police found a hemp, stopping a person to verify documents, and then delivered him to the department, since there were no documents under him. During searches, everyone found drugs.

"Narcotic" cases were considered in a special order. All defendants showed confessions, which in most cases were recorded on the camera. The Republic of Chechnya’s law enforcement agencies said that the detainees who refused to speak to the camera were forced to do this with the help of torture. Similar cases most often occurred in late October and early November 2017.

“Law enforcement agencies are untied hands, because they understand that they are executing an order,” said another interlocutor publication. The third source noted that there was no “practical meaning” in the records, and perhaps records were used to report to the leadership, including Kadyrov.

The 31-year-old Magomed-Ali Mezhidov, detained during the raid on August 14, 2017, wrote in a complaint to the prosecutor’s office that on August 16 he was tortured in the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Shalinsky District. The police attached a device for torture by electricity to Mezhidov’s thumbs, and an Olympic was tied on his head.

“I shouted, it was very painful for me. At the same time, operational employees said that they would torture me until I agree to sign the recognition, ”wrote Mezhidov.

His older brother, Magomed Sidik Mezhidov, was also detained. In the department, he was “immobilized with tape and handcuffs” and tortured until he gave a confession.

“In the office there were several employees who said that I had no choice, I still confess, otherwise they would fabricate the article“ The Terrorist Act ”either attracted for participation in illegal armed formation (Articles 205 and 208 of the Criminal Code), and then you can do everything that you want with me,” wrote Magomed Sidik Mezhidov in the statement to the prosecutor's office.

As a result, he was accused of on August 20 he sold a little more than 16 grams of marijuana for a thousand rubles, and Magomeda -Ali in storage of almost 128 grams of marijuana.

Republic writes that “objects of close attention” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were people who already fell into the view of law enforcement officers. Magomed-Ali Mezhidov three times since 2016 was found guilty of "narcotic" articles.

In October 2016, the New Gazeta reported that the Grozny television channel showed a meeting of Ramzan Kadyrov with the Chechen security officials, which discussed the struggle with high mortality on the roads and the “tablet” drug addiction.

“Those who in the Chechen Republic violate peace, shoot a damn mother. Nothing matters - the law, not the law ... shoot! Understand? Assalam Aleikum and there are no problems! This is the law! ”Said Kadyrov.

The replica was shown on the air, but then cut out. Prosecutor Sharpuddy Abdul-Kadyrov called these words torn from context.

On January 9, in Chechnya, the head of the Grozny branch of the human rights center "Memorial" Oyub Titiev was detained. On January 11, he was charged with storing drugs on a large scale.