Investigators suspect law enforcers of kidnapping Ingush resident

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports that policemen are suspected of kidnapping in 2010 a resident of Ingushetia and during five days demanding from him to confess to crimes.

According to investigators, on August 5, 2010, unidentified law enforcers "with no legal grounds" took a 27-year-old resident of Ingushetia away from his house and brought him to an administrative building where they "illegally detained him during five days, used physical violence against him and demanded from him to confess to commission of crimes, " reports the press service of the ICRF's Investigating Department for the Republic for Ingushetia.

"They failed to obtain from the victim his confession, took him to the outskirts of the rural settlement of Nesterovskoe in the Sunzha District of the republic and released him," reported officials from the ICRF's Investigating Department for Ingushetia.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on August 5, 2010, Ingush residents Zelimkhan Mutsolgov and Ibragim Tochiev were kidnapped from the Zelimkhan Mutsolgov's house. On August 10, 2010, unidentified people threw Zelimkhan Mutsolgov unconscious on the outskirts of the Cossack village of Nesterovskaya of the Sunzha District. He was severely beaten, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reported. Ibragim Tochiev was accused of involvement in the armed underground, and, according to his relatives, he had also been beaten up.

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