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11 August 2010, 16:00

Teenager beaten and kidnapped in Ingushetia by power agents, rights defenders assert

On August 8 in Ingushetia, in Surkhakhi village, employees of unidentified power agencies beat and kidnapped Magomed Alikhanovich Mutsolgov, 15. His father was not told where the boy was taken.

As reported by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", power agents conducted a non-authorized search in the Mutsolgovs' house, during which family members were beaten; and for two days neither relatives nor the advocate were admitted to the minor Magomed.

On July 24, 2010, power agents killed the elder brother of the boy - Mutsolgov, Mustafa Alikhanovich, born in 1987. According to eyewitnesses, in the road between Ekazhevo and Surkhakhi villages, power agents used their armoured machines to block the car with Mustafa Mutsolgov and his fellow villager Vakha Sapraliev, born in 1986, inside, pulled them out of the car, handcuffed, dragged some dozens of meters away and shot dead.

According to the press service of the Department of the FSB for the Republic of Ingushetia, power agents tried to stop a suspicious car, but people inside would not obey and opened fire; they were liquidated by the fire in response.

See earlier report: "Rights activists demand that Dagestan authorities punish militiamen for beating teenager".

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