14:28, 30 June 2008

Local residents thought to be missing found in Dagestan SIZOs

Today, relatives of the missing residents of Dagestan Ali Zalitdinov and Idris Guchakaev, who have again rallied near the building of the Republic's Prosecutor's Office, were told both guys were detained by militiamen and are now kept in the SIZO (pre-trial detention facility).

A spokesman of prosecutor's office has presented information that Ali Zalitdinov is kept in SIZO of the city Buinaksk, and Idris Guchakaev - in SIZO of Makhachkala.

"However, the spokesman refused to disclose the reason of detainment of our relatives and what charges were presented to them," one of the relatives has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

According to the information received from a source in the Dagestan Prosecutor's Office, "the case is under the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), and the prosecutors have no additional information about the detainees."

However, so far, the Dagestan MIA has given no comments on the situation.

Author: Oleg Ionov, CK correspondent