Chechen gays Magamadov and Isaev complain about lack of doctors’ attention to their hunger strike

Chechen natives Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev have been refusing food in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) for the tenth day already, demanding to change the territorial jurisdiction of their case, but no warders of the SIZO have ever visited them. This was announced by a representative of the “SK SOS” Crisis Group.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that on December 21, Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev went on a hunger strike, as the Achkhoi-Martan District Court refused to transfer their case to another region. Advocates filed a motion to transfer the case to a court in another region, since they did not hope for an unbiased trial in Chechnya. On December 29, witnesses confessed that they had signed ready-made testimonies.

For the 10th day, Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev continue their hunger strike at the SIZO. At a court hearing held on December 29, the brothers handed over to the advocate a leaflet with a request to transfer the case to another region for consideration, the “SK SOS” Crisis Group reported.

After their detention in February, the brothers were accused of aiding and abetting a militant. The accusation is ridiculous, since Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev are LGBT members and atheists, while according to the investigators’ version, it was a supporter of the radical movement in Islam who agreed to support the militant, says Elena Milashina, an observer of the newspaper “Novaya Gazeta”.