On August, 8, the court in Dagestan will consider an appeal of the policemen acknowledged guilty of beating up a teenager

The trial on the appeal against the verdict to officers of District Department of Interior Affairs in Shamil district of Dagestan who were accused of beating up a fourteen-year-old boy in June, 2009, was deferred till August, 8.

On July, 19, 2010, several officers in the Department of Interior Affairs of the settlement of Khebda, Shamil district, beat up a teenager. They forced him to confess to having stolen a drill. According to his relatives, one of the boy’s ears got deaf as a result. The investigation on the case dragged on for ten months. Officers of the Ministry of Interior Affairs Magomed Magomedov, Gamzat Nurudinov and Shamil Magomedov were brought before the court. They did not acknowledge themselves guilty.

On May, 20, the court brought the verdict of guilty against all the defendants. Shamil Magomedov was sentenced to 2,5 years of conditional custody with a probationary period of one year, Gamzat Nurudinov got three years of custody with a probationary period of one year. Chief district militia officer Magomed Magomedov was sentences to four years of custody with a probationary period of two years and a prohibition of service in law enforcement bodies. The defendants appealed against the verdict.

The reason for deferment of the trial on the cassational appeal appointed for today was that one of the defendants produced documents of being on an inpatient treatment and he wished to participate in the trial personally.