Dagestan: Two Brothers from Makhachkala Disappeared
On March 29th, 2012, Zoya Magomedovna Abdulayeva, a resident of
Makhachkala, Dagestan, addressed to the Human Rights Center
"Memorial" with a written statement. She informed that on March 7th
at 8am, her sons Magomed Temirlanovich Murtuzaliyev, born in 1981,
and Abdula Temirlanovich Murtuzaliyev, born in 1982, left the house
in a silver-coloured car «Lada Priora» (registration number K356OK,
5th region) towards the sea coast and did not come back. According
to Abdulayeva, everyday, they did their morning exercises there.
Zoya asserts that on March 8th, she visited all the hospitals of
the city but did not find her sons.
On March 10th in the morning, agents of power structures – Muslim
Biygishiev, agent of Department of Internal Affairs of Sovetski
district of Makhachkala, Malik Dakhaev, district policeman and a
silovik in plain clothers, came to her house (Markova St.) where she
lives with her youngest son, Abdula. They started to ask Zoya if
her sons prayed, if they wore beards. They also asked why the
brothers had left home without their mobile phones. She answered
that her sons used to pray, they wore no beards and they never took
mobile phones when they went out to do their morning exercises. The
agents of power structures asked if there was some Muslim literature
in the house. According to Abdulayeva, they wanted to take away the
Koran, but she did not give it to them. Therefore, as Zoya asserts
siloviks carried away other books about marriage in Islam, about
Muslim prayer. In addition, policemen took away mobile phones of
Zoe's sons, their passports and the computer.
As written in Abdulayeva's statement, on the same day, on March
10th, after dinner, the same agents of power structures came to her
second son, Magomed (Gagarin St.). His wife Imaniyat Murtuzaliyeva
and his father were in the flat. Zoya asserts that policemen carried
away Muslim books and the computer.
According to her, books, the passport and the computer were brought
back but they are still keeping the cell phones.
On March 13th, Zoya sent a statement to local Federal Security
Service of Russian Federation for Dagestan for disappearance of her
sons. On March 24th she received an answer that her appeal was
addressed to the Republican Prosecutor's office.
Zoya's husband,Temirlan Murtuzaliyev, also sent a letter to the
President of Dagestan, but he did not receive an answer.
On March 28th at 10am, parents of missing men were invited to the
Public Prosecutor's office of Makhachkala for a questioning.
According to Zoya, the inspector Pirov asked the same questions as
the policemen within the search case.
In Abdulayeva's statement, she asks for help to know the whereabouts
of her sons. Zoe is afraid that they were abducted and that their
life and health could be under threat.
April 2nd, 2012