Mother of Radjab Mustafaev shot dead in Semender claims her son was not militant

Radjab Mustafaev, who was killed in the village of Semender on September 2, was not a member of an illegal armed formation (IAF). However, investigators refuse to give out his body for burial, the mother of the deceased man states.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on September 2, in the Makhachkala village of Semender, policemen shot and killed a man who, according to them, opened fire on them while they tried to check his car. The killed man was identified as Radjab Mustafaev, born in 1978. According to the police, he used to be an accomplice of the "Kadar" and "Makhachkala" militant groupings, and he was involved in the shelling of staff members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) that occurred in July 2009 in the village of Semender.

Patimat Mustafaeva, the mother of the killed man, refutes the official version of his possible involvement in the IAF and states law enforcers refuse to give out the body of her son for burial. The woman has described the above situation in her appeal to the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy), the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Aisha Selimkhanova, a member of the DRPO "Pravozaschita".

In her appeal, Patimat Mustafaeva has stated that she learned from eyewitnesses about a black foreign-made car, which stopped close to her son's car. Then, according to the eyewitnesses, unidentified men in masks stepped out of the foreign-made car and shot and killed her son. Meanwhile, according to the eyewitnesses, Radjab Mustafaev did not open fire in response to the attack.

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