Dagestan: Hearing on the Case of the Beating of the Minor
Akhmedov Did Not Take Place
The hearing in the case of the police beating of Makhmud Akhmedov,
an underage resident of the village of Khebda in the Shamilsky
region of the Republic of Dagestan, which had been scheduled for May
18, has been postponed due to illness of the victim’s lawyer, Aziz
Kurbanov. The date of the next hearing will be announced by the
court clerk.
Let us remind that on July 18, 2010, three police officers from a
police department in the Shamilsky region of the Republic of
Dagestan, Magomed Magomedov, Gamzat Nurudinov and Shamil
Magomedaliev, detained Makhmud at his home in the village of Khebda
and severely beat him at the police station. The teenager received a
contusion of the brain and lost his hearing in one ear. On May 20,
2011, the police officers were found guilty of abuse of office (Item
A, Part 3, Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian
Federation) and they were given suspended sentences from 2.6 to 4
years in prison, and banned from working in the police service for
one year. Considering this sentence too lenient, Akhmed’s family
appealed against the decision in the Supreme Court of the Republic
of Dagestan. The court found a gross violation of procedural rules
in the case, and on October 18, 2011, it was returned to the
prosecutor’s office. In January 2012, the materials on the criminal
case involving Sh. Magomedaliev and G. Nurudinov were allocated to
another proceeding
(
http://www.memo.ru/eng/news/2012/04/27/2704121.html).
May 22, 2012