IVS inmates tried to commit suicide in Cherkessk because of torture, advocates assert

The reason for two suspects kept at the temporary detention centre (known as IVS) in Cherkessk to commit suicide was in unlawful methods of investigation, pressure and threats of torture by law enforcement officials. The inmates themselves told about it to their advocates.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on August 29 two suspects accused of several armed robberies, cut their veins at the IVS of the Cherkessk OVD (Interior Division). Currently, one of them – Soltan Djankezov, born in 1986, is taking his treatment at the Republic's Clinical Hospital. The other one – Magomet Djubuev, born in 1982, was returned to the IVS.

Elvira Aidinova, the advocate for Soltan Djankezov, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that on August 20 her other client Mahomet Djubuev and one more figurant in the same case Totorkulov by the name were convoyed to Cherkessk from the Dagestani village of Shamkhal, where they served their terms in a high security colony.

"In connection with detention of a new suspect, who testified against them, the case was reopened under "newly discovered facts." These facts were complemented by the suspects' new confessions, this time knocked out of them under pressure," said Aidinova.

Totorkulov and Djubuev were convicted for murdering Fral Shebzukhov, the adviser to the ex-head of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR). Djankezov was convicted for an attempted murder of Natalia Nagornaya, the deputy head of the Department of the Federal Treasure for the KChR.