Torture

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Crime

Ingushetia disability care home accused of chaining naked patients to benches

by Luiza Mchedlishvili

•1 min read

Images have appeared online purportedly showing patients being abused at an Ingush care home for people with intellectual disabilities. Images shared by Russian Telegram channel Baza [WARNING: DISTURBING IMAGERY] showed naked patients shackled to benches and to the wall in an empty tiled room. Also shown in the images were metal bowls from which the patients eat from using their hands. The facility in Psedakh, a village in northwestern Ingushetia, caters to people who are unable to care

Human Rights

Prison riot in Vladikavkaz over alleged torture

by OC Media

•2 min read

A prison riot has taken place at a penal colony in the North Ossetian capital, Vladikavkaz, over the alleged torture of prisoners. The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service stated that the protests on 15 October were suppressed on the same day, with a number of inmates transferred to penitentiary institutions in other regions. Local special police units were brought in to storm the facility. The Investigative Committee of North Ossetia has launched a probe into the riots. The riot erupted

Chechnya

ECHR finds Russia responsible for disappearance and death of Chechen man

by OC Media

•2 min read

The European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) has found the Russian state responsible for the disappearance and death of a Chechen man following his detention by security forces. The court noted that Russia had not submitted any evidence or explanation contradicting Saidakhmadov’s mother’s claim that her son was murdered by the authorities, and that therefore ‘the death of Aslanbek Saidakhmadov can be attributed to the State’. The court ruled that the state had also failed to investigate Saidak

The European Court of Human Rights. Photo via the Council of Europe.

Chechnya

‘The officer swore he would rape his sister’ — EHCR awards $1 million over North Caucasus tortures

by Zhalavdi Geriyev

•4 min read

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Russia to pay compensation for the torture of 13 men from the North Caucasus between 2004–2006. On 9 February, the court issued a joint judgement in the case of Uspanov and others v Russia, ordering a total of €798,100 ($972,000) in compensation be paid to 13 applicants from the North Caucasus. According to the court’s ruling, Russia was responsible for torturing the applicants, refusing to investigate reports of violence, unfair impriso

Daghestan

Arrested Daghestani exorcist claims he was ‘kidnapped and tortured’

by OC Media

•2 min read

An exorcist facing weapons charges in Daghestan has claimed that he was abducted and tortured into confessing. On Tuesday, Mackhachkala’s Sovietsky District Court remanded Ibragim Ibalayev into two-months pretrial detention, his lawyer says. Ibalayev is a well-known exorcist in Daghestan. His Instagram page, which has almost 32,000 followers, contains photos and videos of Ibalayev reading passages of the Koran to people supposedly ‘possessed by djinns’. Ibalayev’s lawyer, Israfil Gadadov,

Chechnya

Chechen government critic sodomises self with bottle in apology video

by OC Media

•4 min read

A moderator of a Telegram channel critical of the authorities has appeared in a video torturing and humiliating himself, reportedly after being abducted by armed men. In the video posted to Telegram channel 1adat on Monday, a naked man standing on his knees in the corner of the room introduces himself as 19-year-old Salman Tepsurkayev. The man claims to be the administrator of the 1adat channel. ‘This is a dirty group, they discuss strangers, the Chechen Government, create pictures and write

Photos of detainees allegedly taken in the Nasimi District Police Department. Via Azadliq.

Azerbaijan

Photos of alleged torture by police published in Azerbaijan

by OC Media

•4 min read

Journalists in Azerbaijan have published photographs depicting what they claim is the torture of detainees in a police station in Baku. Several of the photographs published on Tuesday picture men stripped naked and lying on the ground. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has denied the allegations, claiming the photographs were not taken in Azerbaijan. The pictures were first shared by prominent journalist in-exile Ganimat Zahid, the editor of the opposition Azadliq newspaper and YouTube cha