The eight killed and burned Dagestanis found guilty of attacking police officers in Chechnya

The Supreme Court of Chechnya found guilty of attacking the Chechen police and the turnover of weapons of the eight Dagestanis, who were killed and burned. This was reported to the Mediazone by the lawyer of the international human rights group "Agora" Andrei Sabinin.

Criminal cases under Article 317 of the Criminal Code (attempted life of law enforcement officials) and part 2 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code (illegal turnover of weapons) were terminated in connection with the death of the defendants.

Relatives of the victims wanted to achieve a “impartial consideration of the case” and demanded to transfer him from Chechnya to Dagestan, but they were refused .

Sabinin pointed out that in 2016, immediately after the death of young people, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov “expressed judgments about the obvious guilt of the dead.”

Mediazona wrote in detail about eight young people who were abducted in Dagestan in the fall of 2016 - some were attacked by armed people in masks in the eyes of witnesses.

According to investigators, the Dagestanis fired from the security forces who tried to check the documents from them, and were killed. The cars in which young people were burned. Relatives of the dead are sure that the security forces themselves staged a clash. Families insist that they were killed in Chechnya after the start of the protest.