Court finds natives of Dagestan who made word "Kavkaz" out of their comrades-in-arms guilty

In the Baltic Fleet, the garrison court of the city of Baltiysk has convicted seven natives of Dagestan, regular servicemen, who "wrote" the word "Kavkaz" by bodies of their comrades-in-arms.

According to the press service of the Military Prosecutor's Office of the Baltic Fleet, in August 2009, a group of sailors on regular service "under threat of application of violence and under actual violence forced their comrades-in-arms to lie down on the parade ground of the military unit so that to form the word 'Kavkaz' with their bodies."

The prisoners dock contained Vitaly Shakh, Gadjibakhmud Kurbanov, Arag Eminov, Sirazhutdin Cheriev, Naib Taigibov, Islam Khamurzov and Dzhamal Temirbulatov, accused of breaking the manuals, causing moral harm to the victims and humiliating their honour and dignity.

In total, in the opinion of the investigation, 38 persons had suffered from the actions of the Dagestanians, the RIA "Novy Region" writes. A criminal case on the incident was opened last November. It was found out later that natives of the Ural Federal District were also involved.

Today, in the course of the court session the Baltic Garrison Military Court has sentenced five soldiers to 18 months of imprisonment and one more - to 21 months in custody. The seventh defendant was sentenced conditionally, the "Interfax" reports.