Advocate: fire-arm was planted on relative of "Mothers of Dagestan" employee

Ziyavutdin Uvaisov, advocate of detained Dinara Butdaeva, suspected of helping militants, operating in Dagestan, asserts that the fire-arm was planted on her by law enforcers.

On January 15, Mr Uvaisov visited the temporary isolation facility of the city of Khasavyurt (Dagestan), where Dinara Butdaeva, detained by local militiamen on January 11, is kept.

The advocate told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Ms Butdaeva's condition is satisfactory, same as the attitude to her by militiamen now, who earlier repeatedly threatened to take her out to Khankala.

We remind you that reports of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan ran that in the course of operative and search actions employees of the Kizil-Yurt ROVD had detected and confiscated from Butdaeva who travelled in a fixed-route taxi van from Khasavyurt to Kizil-Yurt an F-1 grenade, two 200-gram trotyl blocks, 26 pieces of 9 mm cartridges, three mobile phones, seven SIM-cards, a book "Moslem's Customs" and 700 dollars. Two days later, a news item appeared that in Khasavyurt near the railway crossing, in a drainpipe militiamen found a bag with a "Borz" pistol-machine gun and about one thousand cartridges. The militiamen have stated that the bag also belonged to Butdaeva.

Dinara Butdaeva is a sister of Vadim Butdaev, who, in the opinion of Dagestan power agents, headed the Makhachkala group of militants and who was killed in the course of a special operation in Makhachkala in autumn 2008. Dinara Butdaeva was the wife of another militants' leader Rasul Makasharipov killed in summer of 2005. Dinara's sister - Gyulnara Rustamova - is a member of the public human rights organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights".

Gyulnara Rustamova asserts that neither her sister nor her murdered brother have nothing to do with militants: "My brother was all time was persecuted by militiamen, therefore, he was forced to leave his home; then he was killed, and all the murders committed recently in Dagestan were ascribed to him. Now, they get my sister. But I know she's not guilty, the fire-arm and ammunition were planted on her."

Isalmagomed Nabiev, chairman of the independent trade union of entrepreneurs of Dagestan, believes that Butdaeva's detention is an element of the policy aimed at discrediting the human rights organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights".