In Karachay-Cherkessia, the head of the criminal investigation department received 9 years for the death of a detainee
In Cherkessk, Karachay-Cherkess Republic, a court sentenced the former head of the city criminal investigation department, Ruslan Rakhaev, to nine years in a maximum security colony, finding him guilty of the death of a detainee in 2011, the Public Verdict Foundation reports from the courtroom. According to the court decision, now former police officer Ruslan Rakhaev beat 47-year-old detainee Dakhir Dzhankezov at the police station, who later died.