"They clearly understood the limits for which it is forbidden to enter." Milashin and Nemov told how they were beaten and forced to eat land

The journalist of Novaya Gazeta Elena Milashina told how she and lawyer Alexander Nemov were beaten in Chechnya. According to her, the surveillance of them most likely began in Moscow, since the aircraft departure was detained until two more people entered it. They sat in places next to Nemov.

According to Milashina, Nemov was beaten with particular cruelty, while they said that he in the republic "protects too many." They beat polypropylene pipes, the characteristic elongated hematomas can be seen on the face and hands of Milashina. Such pipes in Chechnya are often used to torture people. The knife was stuck in the calf muscle.

Nemov said that they stopped them almost immediately after they drove away from the airport by taxi. The road was blocked by three Camry cars. People in masks came out of there, they threw a taxi driver, and passengers turned their face to the floor. According to Nemov, they told him that they would have killed if not for his children.

“After some time, the car stalled. We were taken out of the cabin and lowered into the ravine. They knelt down there and began to beat us. I was immediately hit with a knife in the leg. I tried to explain to them that I was a lawyer, that I was just doing my job. To which they answered me that no one should protect anyone in Chechnya, they will do it themselves.

Then they covered my head with my own jacket and began to beat. It feels like with plastic pipes. Then their chief put a weapon to his head and said that he would have killed me if he had not been sorry for my children. After that, we were told to count up to 100 and only then open our eyes. But I did not count to 100 and opened it ahead of time. When the main one saw them, he came up to me and struck his chest in the chest, ”Alexander Nemov told the non -umoskvy correspondent.

Elena Milashina says that it was noticeable - the attackers had clear tasks and a time limit, as they were in a hurry. They were laid face in the ground, Milashin is still forced to constantly drink water due to the taste of raw land in the mouth.

“They knew what they want, what their limits they have, for which you cannot go. Although we later thought that if they got into the artery Sasha ... But the doctors said that they knew exactly where to pierce with a knife, apparently so that he would not resist, because he was a man. They very well understood their capabilities and restrictions. They had a strict task to get passwords from phones. They said to count to a hundred. We buried in the ground, they still forced me to eat this land. And left. Sasha and I lie, we think, rise, at that moment they come back. It was a difficult moment, we decided that they left, and they again began to beat us. They beat Sasha very cruelly, they began to break my fingers, but they did not break. Gypsum was made in Grozny because they saw three fingers on the X -ray. In Ossetia, all procedures were repeated and there is a concussion, but there are still no fractures. They <attackers "knew what they were doing.

They did not take the money, I had the crumpled 13 thousand left there, they did not take the cards. They were only interested in technology and documents. Sasha ruined all the documents except for the passport - a passport and a lawyer certificate. ”

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