Kabardino – Balkariya: Unlawfully Detained Person Beaten and Tortured with Electric Current
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Kabardino – Balkariya: Unlawfully Detained Person Beaten and
Tortured with Electric Current
On September, 27, 2011 resident of the town of Tyrnyauz of Elbrusskiy district of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkariya, Malik Mukhamatovich Appaev, addressed Human Rights Center Memorial. He told that on September, 22, at about 1.40 p.m. he went to his wife’s parents’ place for lunch (at 16 Eneeva Str., 21). After the lunch Malik with his wife and mother-in-law went out to their balcony. From there they saw masked people standing next to the building in camouflage uniform.
One of them shouted that Malik and the women left the apartment to avoid risking their lives because a special operation had been planned. When the family was walking out of the building, a silovik in blue camouflage uniform asked Malik’s first and second name at the entrance. After having heard the answer, he ordered, “That’s it, take him!”. Malik was thrown down to the ground, had his hands tied up behind his back with sticky tape, and a plastic bag put on his head. Malik says that he was being constantly beaten at the same time, they were stepping on his head and neck. He lied on the ground with the plastic bag on his head for more than an hour, after which he felt someone put a round metallic object in his hand behind his back, and then something hard was put in a back pocket of his pants (as it turned out, it was a grenade). Malik started yelling trying to turn somebody’s attention to the fact that the prohibited object were being planted on him.
While he was lying on the ground he was demanded to plead guilty of unlawful storage of a high-explosive shell. In a while Malik was brought to his feet, the bag was taken off his head, but his hands remained tied. At that moment policemen and witnesses showed up.
The grenade was pulled out of Malik’s pocket in the presence of the witnesses of search. At first he refused to sign the report drawn up after confiscation. One of the policemen, however, lied to Malik. He said that Malik was only signing to confirm the fact of confiscation of the grenade. As it turned out later, by signing the report Malik had also confirmed that the grenade was his. From the legal point of view, these are two different things. After Malik signed the report, he was cuffed and put in a car VAZ-2114 with no number plates. When in the car, he had the plastic bag slipped on his head again. ‘While we were in the car, one of the officers was taking my hands and trying to leave my fingerprint on a smooth object. As far as I could sense, it was glass or a display of a cell phone. I was trying to resist, but one of them threatened to break my finger’, - Malik states in his appeal. According to Appaev, they were driving for about an hour and a half. All that time the officers of the security agencies were talking about how much they didn’t like the town of Pyatigorsk.
Then the car stopped. The siloviks pulled Malik out of the car, walked with him to a room and placed against the wall. He spent about 20 minutes in this position, and every person walking by would beat him. Then Malik was laid on the floor with his hands and legs tied. He was asked whether he knew the people involved in illegal armed groups who were hiding from the security forces and whether he was helping them.
Malik was answering in the negative. Then the siloviks attached bare wires to his body and switched on the current, asking him questions from time to time. Incapable to endure the torture, he agreed to collaborate.
During the breaks between the tortures Malik had his fingerprints taken. Then a man walked in the room and expressed his discontent with the tortures. Malik was relocated to Elbrus police department where he was advised to plead guilty and confirm that he had found the grenade, otherwise he would be brought back and tortured again.
In the police department corridor Malik had the bag taken off his head and the sticky tape off his hands. He was cuffed. Then he was brought to the investigator office. Few policemen were already there. Malik said that he had found the grenade in a canal near the Baksan river in the town of Tyrnyauz, and signed the statement written down by the siloviks. After that he was released. The investigator demanded that he bring a copy of his passport on the next day and show up by their first order.
In his appeal Malik states that his wife is pregnant. During the so-called detention she was nervous and anxious, and refused to leave her husband alone. One of the siloviks got angry at her, grabbed her by her shoulders, pushed to the wall and hit her stomach with his fist.
On September, 26, a judicial and medical examination was carried out on Malik’s request. It registered the following injuries on his body: burn wound of the left buttock area, scratch of the little finger of the left hand, scratch of the back of his nose and of the right lower extremity, bruise of the left shoulder.
Malik fears for his life, health and for the safety of his family.
September, 30, 2011
On September, 27, 2011 resident of the town of Tyrnyauz of Elbrusskiy district of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkariya, Malik Mukhamatovich Appaev, addressed Human Rights Center Memorial. He told that on September, 22, at about 1.40 p.m. he went to his wife’s parents’ place for lunch (at 16 Eneeva Str., 21). After the lunch Malik with his wife and mother-in-law went out to their balcony. From there they saw masked people standing next to the building in camouflage uniform.
One of them shouted that Malik and the women left the apartment to avoid risking their lives because a special operation had been planned. When the family was walking out of the building, a silovik in blue camouflage uniform asked Malik’s first and second name at the entrance. After having heard the answer, he ordered, “That’s it, take him!”. Malik was thrown down to the ground, had his hands tied up behind his back with sticky tape, and a plastic bag put on his head. Malik says that he was being constantly beaten at the same time, they were stepping on his head and neck. He lied on the ground with the plastic bag on his head for more than an hour, after which he felt someone put a round metallic object in his hand behind his back, and then something hard was put in a back pocket of his pants (as it turned out, it was a grenade). Malik started yelling trying to turn somebody’s attention to the fact that the prohibited object were being planted on him.
While he was lying on the ground he was demanded to plead guilty of unlawful storage of a high-explosive shell. In a while Malik was brought to his feet, the bag was taken off his head, but his hands remained tied. At that moment policemen and witnesses showed up.
The grenade was pulled out of Malik’s pocket in the presence of the witnesses of search. At first he refused to sign the report drawn up after confiscation. One of the policemen, however, lied to Malik. He said that Malik was only signing to confirm the fact of confiscation of the grenade. As it turned out later, by signing the report Malik had also confirmed that the grenade was his. From the legal point of view, these are two different things. After Malik signed the report, he was cuffed and put in a car VAZ-2114 with no number plates. When in the car, he had the plastic bag slipped on his head again. ‘While we were in the car, one of the officers was taking my hands and trying to leave my fingerprint on a smooth object. As far as I could sense, it was glass or a display of a cell phone. I was trying to resist, but one of them threatened to break my finger’, - Malik states in his appeal. According to Appaev, they were driving for about an hour and a half. All that time the officers of the security agencies were talking about how much they didn’t like the town of Pyatigorsk.
Then the car stopped. The siloviks pulled Malik out of the car, walked with him to a room and placed against the wall. He spent about 20 minutes in this position, and every person walking by would beat him. Then Malik was laid on the floor with his hands and legs tied. He was asked whether he knew the people involved in illegal armed groups who were hiding from the security forces and whether he was helping them.
Malik was answering in the negative. Then the siloviks attached bare wires to his body and switched on the current, asking him questions from time to time. Incapable to endure the torture, he agreed to collaborate.
During the breaks between the tortures Malik had his fingerprints taken. Then a man walked in the room and expressed his discontent with the tortures. Malik was relocated to Elbrus police department where he was advised to plead guilty and confirm that he had found the grenade, otherwise he would be brought back and tortured again.
In the police department corridor Malik had the bag taken off his head and the sticky tape off his hands. He was cuffed. Then he was brought to the investigator office. Few policemen were already there. Malik said that he had found the grenade in a canal near the Baksan river in the town of Tyrnyauz, and signed the statement written down by the siloviks. After that he was released. The investigator demanded that he bring a copy of his passport on the next day and show up by their first order.
In his appeal Malik states that his wife is pregnant. During the so-called detention she was nervous and anxious, and refused to leave her husband alone. One of the siloviks got angry at her, grabbed her by her shoulders, pushed to the wall and hit her stomach with his fist.
On September, 26, a judicial and medical examination was carried out on Malik’s request. It registered the following injuries on his body: burn wound of the left buttock area, scratch of the little finger of the left hand, scratch of the back of his nose and of the right lower extremity, bruise of the left shoulder.
Malik fears for his life, health and for the safety of his family.
September, 30, 2011
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