Manas residents demand to release their detained fellow villagers

In the Dagestani village of Manas, local residents organized a gathering after the police had detained several villagers. In their comments left under a video of the detention disseminated on a social network, users criticized law enforcers who used force against an elderly man.

About 1000 people gathered at the "Kavkaz" federal highway near the village of Manas in the Karabudakhkent District. They demanded to dismiss a policeman who used rude force while detaining an elderly man, one of the protesters told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Murad, a resident of the Karabudakhkent District, said that "more than 1000 people" gathered at the federal highway. "People demand a meeting with the police chief. They also demand to dismiss a policeman who hit a Gurbuki villager to his head," the local resident said. According to him, after the video of the rude detention of two men was disseminated on the social network, many people began to come and gather near the federal highway.

"We can hardly imagine how something like that could be done with respect to an elderly man, to a grandfather. It is not in our tradition for a young man to raise his hand to hit an elderly man. No matter what happened between them, the young man was not allowed to act like that. Therefore, we want the policeman to be dismissed," said the man.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on June 9, 2020 at 06:12 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.