Ombudsperson asks not to disseminate video with request to help convicted Chechen native

After calls for maximum reposting of the video asking the Chechen authorities to pay attention to the fate of Khalid Azmatgiriev, a convicted native of Chechnya, whose rights are violated in the penal colony, the Chechen ombudsperson asked not to disseminate the video.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that Khalid Azmatgiriev, a native of Chechnya, who is serving his sentence in the penal colony in Mordovia, inflicted more than 20 cuts on his abdomen with a razor blade in a hall in protest against the prejudiced, in his opinion, attitude of the judge towards him.

Khalid Azmatgiriev is serving his sentence on a fabricated case and cannot go free, as his sentence is constantly being prolonged, an author of the video notes on Instagram, adding a request to social media users to disseminate the information as much as possible so that the authorities of Chechnya would pay attention to Khalid Azmatgiriev’s case.

According to the author of the video, Khalid Azmatgiriev was kept in solitary confinement for seven years and is now “completely mentally broken.”

Advocate Yuri Tkachenko says that Khalid Azmatgiriev has been “beaten, bullied, and provoked” for more than seven years. Driven to despair, the convicted native of Chechnya regularly makes suicide attempts.

The advocate has also added that in 2020, Khalid Azmatgiriev “was provoked to use force against the deputy head of the penal colony,” after which the court prolonged his sentence and returned him to the same penal colony. After that, the administration of the penal colony “pushed through” the initiation of a new criminal case against Khalid Azmatgiriev for disorganizing the activities of the penal colony.

Some social media users asked the authorities of the republic to intervene in the situation.

After that, in his Instagram, Mansur Soltaev, Ombudsperson of Chechnya, called on social media users not to disseminate the above-mentioned video.

“We have this issue under control. We are doing everything in our power,” said the Chechen Ombudsperson as quoted by the “Grozny Inform” agency.