Three police officers from Dagogne have been arrested in connection with the torture of detainees.

Three criminal investigation officers from Dagestanskiye Ogni, accused of beating and torturing two detainees with a stun gun, have been taken into custody.

Three criminal investigation officers from Dagestanskiye Ogni have been taken into custody on charges of abuse of power (Part 4 of Article 286 of the Russian Criminal Code) and attempted bribery (Part 3 of Article 30, Part 5 of Article 290 of the Russian Criminal Code), the press service of the Sovetsky District Court of Makhachkala reported today.

16:20 10.07.2025

Lighter sentence for beating a driver in Dagestan reveals double standards of justice

A three-year suspended sentence for a traffic police officer for causing serious bodily harm to a driver is a lenient sentence, while cases of torture and violence by security forces rarely go to trial and result in actual prison terms. If a civilian had been accused of violence against a security officer, the sentence would have been realistic, analysts noted.

"According to the investigation, between July 16 and 17 of this year, the accused, while serving as officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic of Dagestan, detained two local residents. While at the Dagestanskiye Ogni police station, the officers, attempting to obtain information about the location of narcotics and obtain confessions, used physical force against the detainees: they struck them and also used a stun gun," according to a post on the court's VKontakte page.

Then, according to investigators, one of the accused demanded a bribe of 400,000 rubles from the victims' relatives. "According to investigators, the money was to be transferred through another defendant in exchange for the release of the victims and the waiver of criminal charges. However, the relatives filed a corresponding complaint with law enforcement," the court stated. The defendants have been remanded in custody for one month and 18 days, until November 17, the publication noted.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," a court in Kizilyurt previously sentenced Magomed Timirov and Shamil Ramazanov to suspended sentences, finding them guilty of beating a detainee. Security forces appealed the verdict, but the Supreme Court of Dagestan upheld it.

This court decision was part of a widespread practice in Russia of lenient punishments in torture cases, lawyers and a human rights activist noted.