A Dagestan court has declared illegal inaction in the investigation of an attack on a Memorial employee
On October 1, the Kirovsky District Court of Makhachkala declared illegal the inaction of the investigation into the case of beating of human rights activist and former employee of the Dagestan branch of Memorial Sirazhutdin Datsiev. This was reported by the Memorial Human Rights Center. Thus, the court sided with Datsiev’s defense, which demanded that the lack of response from the police, who restricted access to the case materials, be declared illegal.