In Moscow, advocates of Chechen natives accused of attacking policeman report on their clients' alibi

21-year-old Timirlan Tsatsaev and 22-year-old Aslan Kautarov, natives of the Chechen Republic, are suspected of armed attack on a Moscow policeman. The detainees' family members and advocates note that the detainees have an alibi. Besides, they claim the detainees are being subjected to torture.

On November 26, the Nikulino District Court of Moscow extended the pre-trial restriction measure against Timirlan Tsatsaev and Aslan Kautarov in the form of detention for a period of one month, until December 28.

According to Viskhan Tsatsaev, a brother of Timirlan Tsatsaev, when detained his brother was subjected to pressure. "They tortured him with electric current and forced him to incriminate himself and confess to the armed attack on a policeman. They threatened him to take him away and bury him, where no one could even find him," the detainee's brother has said.

Adnan Yunusov, an advocate of Timirlan Tsatsaev, has also declared the detainees were not involved in the alleged crime.

"We have a 100-percent alibi, and we just need time to prove that. Their innocence is evidenced by the technical record. They were in a different place during that time: the protocols of traffic violations parking in the wrong place were completed against them. Our clients are innocent, and there is a substitution of evidence," Adnan Yunusov has told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

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