15:36, 24 March 2022

ECtHR awards compensations to two natives of Dagestan in torture case

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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged Russian authorities to pay Murad Ragimov and his father Firuddin Ragimov, natives of Dagestan, compensations of 26,000 euros each for violating the ban on torture and the right to immunity.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Murad's sister, Gyunai Ragimova, told about the brutal beating and torture of Murad and his father Firuddin by law enforcers right in their apartment. In January 2017, it became known that experts found signs of torture on the body of Firuddin Ragimov; and in February 2017, human rights activists stated that the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) refused to investigate the torture of the Ragimov father and son. On November 16, 2018, a complaint about the torture of the Ragimovs was filed with the ECtHR.

Law enforcers detained Murad Ragimov on August 30, 2016, in Moscow on suspicion of involvement with militants in Syria, as well as in an attack on policemen in Dagestan. However, after law enforcers found out that Ragimov could not leave Russia because he had no foreign passport, they searched his apartment and announced the discovery of narcotic drugs, relatives of the young man had claimed.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on March 24, 2022 at 09:06 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Source: Caucasian Knot