The ex-chief and employees of a pre-trial detention center in Makhachkala are accused of torturing a former investigator, also accused in a torture case.
The Investigative Committee brought charges of torture and extortion against the former head of SIZO No. 1 in Makhachkala, Daud Davydov, and his subordinates, Arsen Shabanov, a lawyer for one of the victims, told Novaya Gazeta. According to the investigation, in the period from 2015 to 2019, Davydov and his subordinates, Makhach Vakilov and Abdulla Mirzaev, regularly beat the ex-investigator of the Investigative Committee, who was under arrest in the case of torture and illegal imprisonment.