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The lawyer of the “Team Against Torture” announced the death of the 1ADAT chat moderator. The channel confirmed this information
Lawyer of the “Team Against Torture” (CAT) Olga Sadovskaya during an interview with Katerina Gordeeva about the death of 1ADAT telegram chat moderator Salman Tepsurkaev, who was kidnapped and tortured in 2020. This information was provided by representatives of the popular movement and the 1ADAT telegram channel.
stated confirmed “We have no hope left that Salman is alive. We received information about his death for a long time, but we hoped until the last that it was not true,” noted representatives of the telegram channel.
Tepsurkaeva September 6, 2020. According to the checkpoint, he was taken in the car of an active MIA officer to Chechnya. Tepsurkaev was taken to the Terek SOBR base in Grozny, Novaya Gazeta.
kidnapped by data wrote The next day, a video appeared in the chat of the 1ADAT channel in which a young man calling himself Salman Tepsurkaev repents of being the administrator of a channel where the authorities are criticized. The young man, who is shown completely naked in the video, sits on a bottle after confessing.
The Investigative Committee later opened a criminal case in connection with the abduction of Tepsurkaev.
refused According to 1ADAT, Tepsurkaev was killed by inserting a grenade into his mouth and blowing it up on September 15, 2020 at a military training ground in the village of Dzhalka.
“Salman was tortured, humiliated for a week, and in the end he was killed in a horrific way, but this was not enough for Kadyrov’s vile criminals. They gave the body to relatives and told them to “bury it like a dog.” Salman’s body was buried in an unmarked grave,” added representatives of the telegram channel.
In October 2021, the European Court of Human Rights awarded Tepsurkaev 26 thousand euros in compensation. The ECHR found that the Russian authorities violated Articles 3 and 5 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“Prohibition of Torture” and “Right to Liberty and Security”) in relation to Tepsurkaev.