Relatives report torture of Dagestani resident in Krasnodar

In Krasnodar, law enforcers have kidnapped Mikail Mataev, a resident of Khasavyurt, forced him to slander himself, and then arrested him for 15 days, his father Abdulvagab Mataev has reported.

According to his father, who has turned to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", on August 13, Mikail Mataev moved to Krasnodar to do some business. On December 1, he stopped answering telephone calls. On this day, Mikail and his girlfriend were caught by security agents in the street; the agents put bags on their heads and took away in a car, the father said.

On December 9, Mikail called his father and told him that he was kept at a police station in one of the cities of the Krasnodar Territory. On December 10, his father and advocate found him in the isolation facility. The young man said that after kidnapping he was all the night tortured with an electric shocker; they beat him up and demanded to confess to the transfer of cartridges to a certain Visaev. Mikail Mataev claims that he does not know this man.

He also said that he was taken to the police station back on December 2 and arrested for 15 days on charges of petty hooliganism. According to the advocate, law enforcers allowed Mikail to call his parents only after his threat to commit suicide.

Abdulvagab Mataev has noted that his son is not religious, the website of the HRC "Memorial" reports.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.