22:52, 9 March 2016

Attackers on Ingush JMG office broke surveillance cameras

Attackers on the JMG office in Ingushetia. Screenshot of a video from the surveillance camera published in Dmitry Utukin's Twitter, Twitter.com/U2_Keen

Armed persons arrived at the headquarters of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) of rights defenders in Ingushetia in five cars and disabled all the surveillance cameras, said Dmitry Utukin, a lawyer of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT). Records from cameras show eight masked men; some of them hold objects resembling submachine guns.

Tonight a group of masked men broke into the office of the Ingush human rights JMG and began smashing it.

The attackers arrived in five cars, said Utukin, adding that the smashed video camera was fixed at the entrance of the house, where the office is located. Three attackers climbed into the office through the window.

"All the cameras inside the office are broken; and we don't know what is happening there," Mr Utukin wrote on his Twitter.

Let us remind you that today an attack was also committed on a JMG van on Ingush-Chechen border; as a result, nine people were injured. According to the source of the "Caucasian Knot", the attackers moved in cars with Chechen number plates.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.