Murtazali Gasanguseinov was released from police custody after a picket in Makhachkala.

After giving an explanation, police released Murtazali Gasanguseinov from the Makhachkala police station. He is demanding punishment for those responsible for the murder of his two sons in 2016. Investigative Committee officers did not respond to Gasanguseinov's picket; the picketer recorded appeals to Bastrykin and Putin.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," today Murtazali Gasanguseinov went to the Investigative Committee building in Makhachkala for a solo picket with a poster reading "Alexander Ivanovich Bastrykin, who killed my children?" On the eve of the picket, Gasanguseinov explained to "Caucasian Knot" that his new lawyer was not being allowed to review the case materials, and he himself had stopped receiving informational letters informing him that the investigation was ongoing. During the picket, Murtazali wrote a short explanatory note at the request of a police officer, but then the head of the Sovetsky District Department of Internal Affairs called him in for a talk.

Murtazali Gasanguseinov has been released from the Sovetsky District Department of Internal Affairs in Makhachkala. "They asked me to write an explanatory note and asked why I was at the picket. I said that if my sons hadn't been shot, I wouldn't have gone to any picket. After I wrote the explanatory note, they let me go," he told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Gasanguseinov also noted that during the picket outside the building of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Dagestan, no representatives of the agency came to see him.

In a video message recorded during the picket, Gasanguseinov addressed Russian President Vladimir Putin, recalling his live-streamed order to Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin to investigate the murder of his sons. Murtazali also bitterly noted that his sons were turned into "terrorist fighters" in ten hours, but for ten years now he has been unable to investigate their murders.

"Law enforcement agencies shot my sons. For a year and three months they tormented us, claiming they had attempted to kill law enforcement officers and were killed in return fire. For a year and three months they tormented us with claims that my sons were terrorist fighters. "And when they failed to turn the shepherds into terrorist fighters, they say my sons were shot by unknown individuals," he said.

Gasanguseinov recalled that he had already written 14 letters to the president asking to be heard and heard, but had received no response. "Why aren't your instructions being followed by the Investigative Committee? Why aren't my lawyers allowed to review the case materials? Who among us is the terrorist—the Gasanguseinov brothers or the law enforcement agencies?" "If the murder of my sons isn't solved, if the case isn't closed, if those who shot my sons aren't found and punished to the fullest extent of the law, I will be forced to renounce this power and this law," Gasanguseinov said.

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According to Gasanguseinov, the investigation isn't working. and hides the true culprits of his sons' murder. In a second video recorded at the picket, Murtazali addressed Bastrykin, asking why his representatives were not being allowed to review the case materials and recalling Putin's order. "Find the killers of the Gasanguseinov brothers!" he demanded, repeating his threat to "renounce such power and such a law."

The father of the murdered brothers also said that his two previous lawyers were forced to leave after making explicit threats to their children, and a human rights activist who tried to assist him was beaten, after which he was also forced to leave Dagestan. Gasanguseinov is certain that Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev was arrested and sentenced to a long prison term, in part, for reporting on the murder of his sons.

The man also recalled that they tried to pin three unsolved terrorist cases on his sons, and these charges were dropped only after a new group of young men, to whom they were transferred, died. "Who will answer for the murder of my sons? Who will answer for the stigma that was placed on my sons?" he fumed.

The "Caucasian Knot" also reported that Gasanguseinov's series of pickets in 2019 resulted only in disciplinary action against the chief of the police department, who reported the brothers' murders as two militants. The police officer continued to work in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but was demoted to district police officer. Murtazali Gasanguseinov was denied four times his request to open a case against this officer.