In Karachay-Cherkessia, police officers are suspected of local resident's brutal beating

In Karachay-Cherkessia, the Ust-Dzheguta Interdistrict Investigatory Division of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of Russia on the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KCR) initiated a criminal case on charges of excess of power by the officers of the local OVD (Interior Division).

"The Ust-Dzheguta Interdistrict Investigatory Division of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of Russia on the KCR received a statement from the victim's brother. The statement claims beating of Sulemen Kipkeev by the officers of the criminal investigation department of the OVD for the Ust-Dzheguta District," the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Sergey Shuvaev, Senior Assistant of the Chief of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of Russia on the KCR.

According to the investigators, "on June 11 unidentified officer of the OVD for the Ust-Dzheguta District in his office in the presence of other police officers brutally beat Sulemen Kipkeev, seeking his confession to a crime which he actually had not committed".

According to the preliminary report of the forensic medical examination, Sulemen Kipkeev was delivered at least 11 blows with hard objects to various body parts. "As a result of beating, Kipkeev got multiple traumatic injuries, including closed craniocerebral injury with brain contusion," explained a representative of the Investigatory Department.

At present, the investigators reveal persons involved in the commission of the crime. The position of the defendants is still unavailable.