- Dagestan Authorities Can Not Influence the Iniquity Happening in Kirovskiy ROVD of Makhachkala

Afterword to the meeting at the Kremlin on May 19, 2010, dedicated to the North Caucasus situation

On May 18, 2010 at 3 a.m. at the Gazievs’ house in the Republic of Dagestan, Shamkhal village, 20 Gagarina street, a search was conducted, in the course of which some arms and ammunition were found. Three of the Gaziev brothers are detained – Shamil, DOB 1988, Abdurakhman, DOB 1990, Magomed, DOB 1992, and their father, Gazimagomed Gaziev, DOB 1951. Everyone but Shamil was found on the same day in OVD of Kirovsky district of the city of Makhachkala. The location of Shamil Gaziev had still remained unknown.

On May, 19, the information was received that Shamil Gaziev was also at OVD of Kirovsky district. His father had seen him there. However, it was denied at OVD that Gaziev was kept there, and the lawyer was not admitted. On May, 20, Shamil Gaziev was seen at ROVD by the lawyer. Nevertheless, the lawyer was not admitted to the detained while they kept insisting that Gaziev was not at Kirovskiy ROVD. Regardless of the efforts of the lawyer and both local and federal human rights activists, including a member of the Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation Svetlana Gannushkina and the chairman of the Board of HRC Memorial Oleg Orlov, Kirovskiy ROVD did not accepted the fact of unlawful detention Gaziev at the ROVD, and did not admit the lawyer.

The father of the abducted says: "On May, 18, at 3 a.m. we were waken up by knocks. I went out to open the garden gate. Armed people came in, and immediately ordered to wake up the sons, wife, and take them out to the yard. I took them out. They walked away the sons somewhere, and I haven’t seen them from then on, they were driven to Makhachkala. I stayed, because the search started at our place. The permission for the search had not been shown, but it was stated in the resolution that my sons were suspected of a robbery of a hut in Makhachkala. They said that if nothing from there was found, everyone would be released. Crime investigators and the police operatives arrived. There were lots of them… they scattered about the yard. They searched the house, each room. They found nothing there. Then they went to the shed. We had a major tidying – up there the other day, there was nothing, new forage had been brought. And they started to throw the forage over. Suddenly they pulled out a gun. In a black cellophane bag, clean, with a silencer. Then they pulled out an AKM submachine gun in a bag. Then they went to another corner, and dragged some ammunition from there. And from another one – some smoke-puff charge, you know, these 1,5 liters bottles filled with liquid and wrapped with something. And then they calmed down. The end of the search. They planted the arms on us.

The witnesses of search had been brought with them. These are their out-of-staff falsies. The neighbors were not taken as the witnesses. Then I was taken to Kirovskiy ROVD. Two of my sons had already been there. We had been kept until 8 p.m., then released. And one of the sons, Shamil, had been kept separately during all that time. I had seen him accidentally through the checkpoint. He was beaten badly. The policemen there told me, that he was led out by his hands since he could not move on his own. On May 18, the relatives, supported by HRC Memorial, concluded a contract with a lawyer Madina Magomadova. She was unsuccessfully trying to see the client on the following day, did not submit a complaint, did not take active efforts at search for the missing, which resulted in HRC Memorial and the relatives having terminated the agreement with her in the evening of May 19, and entered into contract with a lawyer Musa Suslanov.

In the morning of May 20, Suslanov tried to get an appointment with the client. He had prepared a request for insight with the criminal case papers, wrote off an order. He found the investigator at Kirovskiy ROVD, handed over the order to him. The investigator was very polite and informed the lawyer that there were no claims against Shamil Gaziev, which is why he had been released, and he had been at large for a long time by then, and, evidently, had left for his home. The investigator signed the order, handed the resolution on criminal case commencement and the copies of transcripts of interrogations to the lawyer, during which Gaziev stated that he had had no relations to the arms and ammunition found in the shed of his house. Suslanov made a copy of the resolution and was about to leave, but at that moment Gaziev’s father, who had been with the advocate during all that time, noticed Shamil in one of the rooms of on-duty department of the ROVD. The young man was beaten violently. The father pointed at his son. The lawyer demanded an appointment with his client. In response to the lawyer’s question, why the investigator was lying, the latter answered: “I have released him, turn to the police operatives”. The police staff promptly took Gaziev out of the on-duty department, and the lawyer – out of the ROVD building.

After that Suslanov tried to contact Public Prosecutor’s Office of Kirovskiy district of the city of Makhachkala, but it was impossible to get through to the public prosecutor by phone. The lawyer informed HRC Memorial on the situation. Svetlana Gannushkina called Fisrt Vice-Premier of the Government of the Republic of Dagestan Rizvan Kurbanov, asked him to help find the detained and ensure the admittance of the lawyer to him. Kurbanov promised to ensure the admittance in the nearest future. Nevertheless, they had kept Suslanov from accessing the client, insisting that no one had called regarding that case and that Gaziev was not at ROVD. Gannushkina contacted Kurbanov again. He asked Suslanov to forward an application in his name. Suslanov did so and kept waiting by the ROVD building.

In a while a call was made from the on-duty department of Kirovskiy ROVD on Suslanov’s mobile phone, and he was asked to enter the building. When Suslanov came in, a man of mayor’s rank darted out of one of the rooms, introducing himself as a head of the on-duty department. He attacked the lawyer, pushed him with his hand, shouted to him to go away, used obscene language, demanded that Suslanov had been taken out. A few times the mayor raised his hands against the advocate, trying to provoke his responsive actions. Suslanov caught the hand of the enraged mayor, when the ROVD staff arrived. They led the advocate out, asked him not to be offended and not to pay attention to the mayor who was not in fully sound mind. Evidently, the mayor’s actions resulted from his fear of criminal prosecution for unlawful actions taken against Gaziev, and the desire to conceal the crime.

After that Suslanov sent some telegrams and faxes with messages about the events to the Public Prosecutor’s Office and other instances. The chairman on the Board of HRC Memorial Oleg Orlov also sent a request to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Dagestan. The chairman of Pravozaschita (Human Rights Defence) organization Gulnara Rustamova contacted the Dagestan Ombudsman Umapazil Omarova, who promised to help. Dagestan journalists and human rights activists arrived at Kirovskiy ROVD building.

A lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, a Suslanov’s colleague, went to Public Prosecutor’s Office of Kirovskiy district of Makhachkala, and Musa Suslanov stayed by the ROVD building. Magomedova managed to talk to the Deputy Prosecutor. He was surprised that Gaziev is still detained, because, according to their data, the resolution on the arrest had not been issued. Sapiyat Magomedova explained the situation with Kirovskiy ROVD. The Public Prosecutor’s Office staff promised to head for the location. In half an hour they arrived indeed at Kirovskiy ROVD. Five minutes before their arrival an acquaintance of the advocate and of the relatives had walked out of the police station building, who had previously been asked to see whether Shamil is at the on-duty department. The acquaintance confirmed that Shamil was there and was beaten fiercely. The Public Prosecutor’s Office staff stayed inside the ROVD building for about an hour. After that they walked out and said that Gaziev was not in the on-duty department. When Suslanov explained once again that Gaziev was beaten and he had been kept concealed, the Public Prosecutor’s Office staff claimed that they could not search the ROVD building, and left.

In the afternoon a member of the republic Social observation committee on conducting public control on complying with human rights in the places of compulsory confinement and assistance to individuals who are kept in compulsory custody, Gasan Aygunov, arrived. He was also told that Gaziev was not detained and he was not at the on-duty department. The member of the Committee did not find Gaziev at ROVD.

In a while lawyer Suslanov managed to call Deputy Prosecutor of the Republic Magomed Dibirov. Dibirov told that Gaziev was at Kirovskiy ROVD and that he was questioned by an investigator of the Investigation Committee. The lawyer asked how was such a thing possible: he had been waiting by the ROVD building while his client had been being questioned without his participation. Dibirov answered that he could not influence the investigation process.

Vice-premier Rizvan Kurbanov, who was periodically informed on the development of the situation during the day, admitted by the end of the day that there was nothing he could do to help. The Kirovskiy ROVD staff, still unlawfully, neglecting issuance of documents, were keeping the person, and, evidently, conducted investigative actions without a lawyer.

About 9.30 p.m. Arsen Gadgibekov Suslanov’s acquaintance from Investigation Committee of the Republic called him. Gadgibekov told that Gaziev’s case had been forwarded to him and that on the following day Suslanov could come and meet the client. The investigator permitted the relatives to come and bring parcels, because Shamil had not eaten all day. Besides, he told that Gaziev would be transferred to a detention center soon. In a while a member of Social observation Committee Aygunov visited Kirovskiy ROVD again. This time Gaziev was there.

In the morning of May 21, vice-premier Rizvan Kurbanov contacted Svetlana Gannushkina and told her that Gaziev had been found, the lawyer could meet him and that, according to his data, the lawyer had not been admitted because he had not had an order. Obviously, Kurbanov had been misled, because the lawyer Suslanov had had the order. Moreover, in the morning of May 19, it was signed by the investigator. Kurbanov also said that the case was led by a crime investigator Aburakhman Aliev.

In the afternoon of May 21, Suslanov met the client. Gaziev hardly moved, the movements of the lower part of the body were hampered, there were multiple haematomas, oedemas, scratches, bruises. Moreover, Gaziev had been evidently injected some psychoactive drugs as his speech and reflective abilities were considerably slow. The lawyer spoke to his client in private. He said that he was very scared, that he had been promised to be released providing that he confirmed the previously given statements, which is why he would not complain. Advocate did not succeed in talking the client into telling the truth. Gaziev kept saying that he had not been beaten, despite the signs of the severe blows on his body.

In the course of the interrogation Gaziev claimed that everything he had said before was true. He could not repeat the statements and, pleading to feeling ill, asked to postpone the interrogation. The advocate called emergency and claimed that forensic expertise was carried out to Gaziev.

In the course of the interrogation it was found out that Gaziev admits his participation in the terroristic act in Kizlyar city on March 31, 2010, and that on May 20, investigative actions were carried out towards him with another lawyer’s participation. It is also known that the lawyer Magomadova who was formerly appointed by the relatives did not enter Kirovskiy ROVD on that day (the relatives were permanently present at the building). Besides, she stated to the relatives and HRC Memorial staff that she had not seen her client.

- Svetlana Gannushkina Awarded Russian Cossacks’ Prize

On May 13, 2010 Svetlana Gannushkina, member of the Board of HRC Memorial, head of the Migration and Law Network, chair of the Civic Assistance Committee, member of the Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, was awarded Russian Cossacks’ Prize Faith and Service Tribute.

Svetlana Gannushkina was awarded this Prize for the protection of Russian speaking countrymen who fled to Russia from persecution in Central Asia.

"A Cossack, who had lived in Uzbekistan, fled away because he was persecuted for refusal to testify against the owner of the business where he had worked as a security chief. He says that the owner was just deprived of his business by the relatives of one Uzbek senior official.

Our applicant lived in Russia without registration for a long time; he couldn’t work, marry and walk along the street. His legalization moved forward with our help but it isn’t finished yet. He got married, registered in migration body and I hope he will get a residence permit and civic rights," - tells Gannushkina.

This Cossack is responsible for work with young people in Russian Cossacks Organization. He told his ataman (Cossack chieftain) about Migration and Law Network, Civic Assistance Committee and they decided to award human rights activists. On May 14, 2010 Eugeniy Gladkov, ataman’s comrade, Cossack colonel, awarded Gannushkina with Cross and Prize paper.

"We speak little with young people, - says Gannushkina. – Maybe, we have to meet young Cossacks and to know closer each other."

- Chechnya: Detention of the Ozdievs

On May 17, 2010 Shakhab Ozdiev applied to Svetlana Gannushkina, a member of the Board of HRC Memorial, chair of the Civic Assistance Committee. Shakhab is one of the brothers Ozdievs – not long ago successful Chechen businessmen. He gave her the letter addressed to the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev to Gannushkina. On May 18, during the discussion before the meeting of the North Caucasus NGOs with the President, Gannushkina gave the letter of the Ozdievs to Ella Pamfilova – the chair of the Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation. In the letter the Ozdievs asked to defend them from the destruction of their business and from illegal criminal persecution.

There was an attempt of criminal persecution of the Ozdiev brothers in 2008. Several criminal cases were opened against them. The whole year the investigation was being carried out resulting in the closure of all the cases because of the absence of a criminal act. Dzhabrail Ozdiev had spent six months in custody and was released with a right to rehabilitation.

During this time Ozdievs’ family business was irreplaceably damaged. The work of the companies PFK IMM and OOO Leader belonging to them was paralyzed.

Natalia Estemirova, HRC Memorial member, abducted in Chechnya and shot on July 15, 2009, participated actively in the defence of the Ozdievs.

Ella Pamfilova started working with the letter by applying to the Chechen Public Prosecutor’s office. Local human rights activists reported that people in Chechnya not responsible directly for the work with the letter got the information about it.

We can not be absolutely sure that the events of May 21 are directly connected with the Ozdievs’ letter to the President. But on the same day two Ozdievs’ relatives were detained. At 7:30 pm Isa Ozdoev’s car was stopped. Isa was taken out of the car and taken to the Kurchaloy OVD. An hour and a half before Isa’s nephew Belal Ozdiev had been detained in a restaurant by Ramzan Kadyrov’s guards. A car and legally formalized firearm was taken from Belal to the Zavodskoy OVD of Grozny.

Both Ozdievs were forced to do that supposedly for disobedience to the authorities. According to the relatives, the witnesses of the detentions say that both detained were being beaten, Isa’s cloths were torn and covered with blood.

Since 9 pm till 1 am Gannushkina constantly contacted Chechen Public Prosecutor’s office. She talked to Deputy Prosecutor of Chechnya Sergey Shavkuta, prosecutors on duty Galina Pushkova and Ulman Naminov. Pamfilova also applied to Pushkova.

On May 22, Gannushkina submitted an application by fax to the Chechen Public Prosecutor Mikhail Savchin with the request to take immediate measures for admitting the lawyer to the detained and ensuring his participation in the court hearings of the Isa Ozdiev’s case. However, Public Prosecutor’s office demonstrated total powerlessness in such easy work as admitting a lawyer to the detained citizens.

We only managed to receive information that both Isa and Belal Ozdievs were accused of administrative offence according to the article 19.3 (disobedience to a legal order of a militia officer) of the Code of administrative violations because their cars impeded the motion of the President Kadyrov’s column (or motorcade).

Such an accusation seriously concern us because everyone who hinders Ramzan Kadyrov is for sure in great danger.

On May 22, acting municipal judge of the 18th department of Zavodskoy district of Grozny A. Khizriev sentenced Belal Ozdiev to 15 days of administrative arrest. The car and the firearm were not returned, the lawyer did not take part in the court hearings.

The court decision says: “On May 21, 2010 at 6:30 pm in the city of Grozny on the Putin avenue near house 1 during the moving of a Presidents’ motorcade the column was cut in front of by a car Lexus GS300 without marking driven by Ozdiev Bilal Magomedovich who after the stop did not react at the reprimand, demonstrated malicious disobedience to UGIBDD members that was expressed by not agreeing to go to OM-3 of Grozny UVD.” And then follows a familiar phrase: the guilt is proved totally because “the protocol about the administrative violation of May 21, 2010, series 95 АД №0137332 was composed as provided by the law by a person authorized to compose protocols about administrative violation.”

Some time later Isa Ozdiev was taken to the court. He was also sentenced to 15 days and persuaded not to complain of beating up. The court decision was not given to the Ozdievs.

Isa’s brothers – Magomed, Belal’s father, and Shakhab – wrote applications to the Public Prosecutor of the Kurchaloev district A. Anischenko and to superior bodies.

Isa wrote an application himself: “Yeaterday, on May 21, 2010, I arrived from Khasaviurt at my mother’s. Before coming back home to Khasaviurt I decided to see my manufacturing entity situated near the entrance of the village of Bachi-Yurt from the side of the village of Mayrtup. Two black cars Lada Priora and Jeep Land Cruiser started winking their lights at me not far from my parents’ house. I stopped. They reached me and asked to follow them to the military department situated on the outskirts of the the village. I did not object at all and went there. Having arrived I asked the head of the department Suliman Kaimov to let me go back to Khasaviurt. He ordered his subordinates to drive the car somewhere and detain me till his arrival. In 20 or 30 minutes he with the head of Chechen President’s guard arrived. Suliman Kaimov started beating me up ordering his subordinates to knock me down, he started beating me, dealing blows by legs and arms till the head of the guards did not order to stop the beating. After all that I was taken to the Kurchaloev department and I am accused of disobedience to the members of MVD. Distinguished Public Prosecutor, I ask you to examine the case. Truly yours, I, Ozdiev.”

There is no result. Despite numerous complaints, Ozdiev was not examined to register beatings. A doctor invited by an investigator does not venture to do his work scared of the participants of the beating up. He only draws up a report of medical examination to state the absence of intoxication. The doctor does not seem to notice that there is a severely beaten man in front of him.

They do not allow to give food to Isa Ozdiev being in custody. Relatives are not allowed to see him. He is not rendered medical assistance.

On Isa Ozdiev’s photo (see Memorial’s web-site: www.memo.ru/2010/05/24/litso.jpg; www.memo.ru/2010/05/24/noga.jpg) taken during court hearings the shirt is covered with blood, scratches and bruises are seen on the face. Isa’s nose and ribs are likely to be broken. Isa complains on bad pain in kidneys and chest.

The Ozdievs are going to appeal against both court decisions and violations made during the detention. But previously the detained have to meet the lawyer what they still can not do.

According to the latest information Shakhab was called to a special detention center where Isa was. Isa was severely beaten, lied unconscious. Isa needs immediate medical assistance but is not taken to the hospital.

- Dagestan: Family Being Pressed Upon Because of Relative Who Has Left for “Woods”

An HRC Memorial staff member in the city of Kizlyar of the Republic of Dagestan was turned to by a local resident Asiyat Magomedrasulova. She asked to find her son, Magomed Gadgiev, DOB 1985, and her husband, Khaybula Gadgiev, and protect their legal rights. The problems of Asiyat’s family result from the fact that her son Pakhrudin, DOB 1982, left for “woods” to join boeviks.

According to Magomedrasulova, it happened in the beginning of June, 2009. Pakhrudin and his cousin were going in a car from Khasavyurt, where they had visited their brother’s pregnant wife in a hospital. On their way to Karl Marx village (Kizlyarskiy district, 20 km. from the city of Kizlyar) they were stopped by a man and asked to give him a lift. In a while the car was stopped on the highway by an officer of the State Road Traffic Safety Inspection. He started to check the documents, examined the boot of the car. The passenger who was being given a lift dragged a weapon and fired a shot at the officer.

After that event, according to Magomedrasulova, law enforcement authorities started to search for Pakhrudin as the killer’s accomplice, and he was forced to fled from his home. As the staff of Kizlyarskiy ROVD say, he is hiding in the woods. From then on, searches have been taking place permanently at the Gadgievs’ house. At the same time, the ROVD officers do not show any resolutions, and after the searches they do not draw up reports. They turn everything upside down in the house and leave.

On May 7, 2010, another search was conducted in the house. Asiyat wasn’t there: she had left for market in the morning; she had left her phone at home. In the evening, after the market closed, Asiyat left for Krasnooktyabrskoe village for some greens (she purchases the greens to resell it in the market) and stayed there. She called home from there at about 11 p.m. Her husband told her that there were some guests at their place. Asiyat decided that it was their neighbors, and didn’t pay too much attention to his words.

In the morning of the following day she skipped coming in the house and went straight to the market. Her neighbors, Sidrat and Ayzanat Magomedovy, told her there that the policemen searched Asiyat’s house and took her husband and drove him away. Sidrat and Ayzanat were called to as witnesses.

According to the Magomedovs, there were lots of masked officers and civilians.

Asiyat started to call her husband and son Magomed immediately, but both of the phones were switched off. Then Magomedrasulova went to Kizlyarskiy ROVD. She tried to find out where her husband and son were. The on-duty officer told her that Khaybula Gadgiev was in ROVD, and that he had been brought there because he had been drunk. When Magomedrasulova said that her husband did not drink at all, another officer told that he had been brought to ROVD for a fight.

In the evening, at about 9 p.m., Asiyat saw her husband from afar near the district police department. She was told that Haybula was being taken to municipal court. Magomedrasulova headed towards there immediately, but there was no one at the court. She then went to the organized crime control department and there tried to find out why her husband had been taken. An officer of the department Mukhu Umarov (or Omarov) told her that Haybula would be released soon and confirmed that the officers of their department had participated in the detention as well. Responding to Magomedrasulova’s question on where her son was he told that Magomed had been transported to Makhachkala, and that that was also where the phones had been brought which had been withdrawn at their house during the search.

In the UBOP building Magomedrasulova overheard a conversation between a man and a woman who were standing next to her. The man had his brother abducted, and the woman – her son. Asiyat asked them about the abductions and found out that both of the abducted were students of Kizlyar branch of Saint Petersburg economic university. The son of Asiyat Magomed is also a student of this university. The man called someone and found out that Magomed Haybulaevich Gadgiev,DOB 1985, had been abducted together with those two students.

Later the details of the event became known. At about 5 p.m. four young men – the son and the brother of the man and the woman talking to each other in UBOP, Magomed Gadgiev and Salavat Ismailov, DOB 1987, - walked out of the university. Three or four passenger cars, including VAZ-2110, were standing nearby, packed with people. When the students passed the block, Gazel drove up to them. Some unknown masked people leaped out of Gazel and the passenger cars. They threw the young men on the ground, beat them with truncheons, then pushed into Gazel , made them lie on the ground there and drove them to Makhachkala. Everyone was put on some plastic bracelets on their hands. The young men were brought to the Investigation Committee of the Investigation department at the Dagestan Public Prosecutor’s Office (located in Makhachkala, Shamil street). Until 4 a.m. they were questioned one by one, beaten, tortured by electric shock. One of the detained had his bridge of the nose broken. An officer was holding a mobile phone in his hands. Those who were beating them demanded that one of the young men admitted that the phone was his. It became known later that an “unclear”, according to the relatives, characteristics of one the young men arrived at the Investigation Committee, that most probably had been written by the district police officer. The officer has been working there for a short time, which is why he does not know much about the young men. It is probable that the characteristic was forged already in Makhachkala.

Magomed Gadgiev was asked a lot about his brother Pakhrudin – where the latter had been located, if he had been communicating with the family, had they been seeing each other and so on. Magomed told that after Pakhrudin’s disappearance he had seen him twice when the brother came home. No one had seen Pakhrudin anymore: he called Magomed out and met him in private. Pakhrudin told that he had been hiding in the woods with his cousin (the one with whom he was driving from Hasavyurt in the beginning of June, 2009 – see above) and was afraid to return home. A district police officer has been killed recently in Kizlyar. According to the relatives’ words, Pakhrudin is suspected of the murder.

It had been attempted to charge Magomed with the preparation of the terroristic act in Kizlyar on May, 9. He was threatened to be applied Article 100 (outpatient compulsory observation and treatment by psychiatrist) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Houses of all of the four were searched, the mobile phones and computers were withdrawn. Later Asiyat was given a new phone instead of hers with a new SIM-card by the policemen. It is probable that the phone is tapped. Afterwards the son and the brother of the conversing at UBOP man and woman were released. They are very frightened and refuse to speak about the detention. The major part of the information was received from Magomed Gadgiev who was released on May, 21 (see below).

Salavat Ismailov is still kept in custody. Most probably he had been made to admit that the phone, that the officer of the Investigation Committee had been holding in his hands during the questioning at the first night of the detention, belonged to him. The court is taking place on June 7 or 8. There are some concerns that compulsory treatment by psychiatrist might be applied to Salavat – in this case he might be made to sign any documents and take on responsibility for any crimes.

Ismailov’s mother is old and ill. She lives in the mountains and might be unaware of the fact that her son is at the detention center. Ismailov’s brother is a teacher in a rural school.

Gadgiev, Ismailov and the other two young men are characterized positively at the university.

Nevertheless, Asiyat Magomedrasulova kept searching for her husband. It was found out that he had been kept in Kizlyar ROVD and he was assigned with a punishment for disobedience in respect of a policeman order – administrative arrest for 10 days. On May, 17, Asiyat, assisted by a lawyer from HRC Memorial, wrote an appellation complaint. The complaint was examined immediately. At about 11 p.m. Haibula Gadgiev was released. He only left ROVD in the morning of the following day since there were no means to get home during the night. The judge who had passed the resolution on the restraint selection said to Magomedrasulova in the presence of the HRC Memorial lawyer: “Let your son, who is hiding, come to ROVD on his own, and you won’t have any problems. It is all because of him.” When Magomedrasulova went to complete an attorney letter in favor of HRC Memorial lawyer, she was outraged at the on-duty department of the ROVD. “All of you, the immigrants from Chechnya (the members of the Magomedrasulov family are forced immigrants from Borozdinovskaya village of the Chechen Republic. – HRC Memorial), are to be shot down,” – she was told. The released Haibula Gadgiev said that they were trying to make him sign a document on keeping arms at his house. He was asked about his son Pakhrudin. When Haibula refused to sign, he was sent to municipal court and was charged with the breach of Article 19.3 of the Code of administrative violations – for disobedience in regard of legal order of a police officer. Haibula Gadgiev is a primary school teacher, and visually impaired. During the detention and the interrogation he experienced major shock and was in a stressed condition.

Magomed Gadgiev was found at a detention center of the city of Makhachkala. According to his lawyer’s words, Ziyavutdin Uvaysov, Magomed was tortured with electric shock; there were minor signs of burns on the young man’s hands that faded quickly. There are no sign of blows on his body. The lawyer of HRC Memorial met with Arsen Gadgibekov – the investigator of the Investigation Committee of the Investigation Department of the general Prosecutor’s Office in Dagestan, who is running Gadgiev’s case. He told that Gadgiev is being examined for the participation in the crimes commitments, stipulated by Articles 205 (terroristic act) and 317 (infringement of life of a law enforcement authority officer) of the Criminal Code. Another student of the same university was kept in custody together with Gadgiev, Salavat Ismailov. The investigator informed the HRC Memorial lawyer that they had some materials which prove Ismailov’s guilt. There are no such materials in Gadgiev’s respect, which is why he would be kept for a month and then released, because the investigative authorities can keep a suspected in custody for a month if he is charged with such major Articles of the Criminal Code as 205 and 317.

Earlier, on April, 3, 2010, Gadgi Gadgiev, the youngest of Magomedrasulova’s sons, a pupil of the fifth grade of a secondary school No 3 of the city of Kizlyar, was taken to the department by policemen when he was going home. Asiyat was told about that by phone. She came to Kizlyarskiy ROVD and found the boy there. The son was kept for three to four hours, he was questioned. The norm that an underage must be questioned in the presence of parents or teachers was breached. As it was found out later, Gadgi was asked how much money his mother earned, what his father was doing, whether his brother Pakhrudin brought money, whether his mother received messages from him. Gadgi was also asked about his elder brother Kuramagomed, who lives in Moscow. Magomedrasulova submitted a complaint about the fact that her son was unlawfully brought to the police station. It was rejected to even register the complaint. According to Magomedrasulova’s words, in Moscow, in Kuramagomed’s (DOB 1980) apartment, the policemen are permanently conducting searches, not presenting any resolutions during these searches. Because of that Kuramagomed’s wife has left him.

*According to the relatives’ words, in a while they tried to detain the passenger. He was traced, completely shot down his car, not even trying to stop him.

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