09 April 2014, 18:12
HRC "Memorial": Suleiman Edigov stops his hunger strike in Chechnya
On March 31, Suleiman Edigov, a resident of Chechnya, accused of endangering the life of a law enforcer and arms trafficking, stopped his hunger strike, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Suleiman Edigov went on a hunger strike on March 14. According to his version, Judge German Aleksandrov was biased in considering his case and ignored his claims about kidnapping and torture.
Edigov's case became famous after the self-disqualification of Judge Vakhid Abubakarov on November 1, 2013, who considered Edigov's case earlier and who stated that he had been subjected to pressure of some senior official of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), after which the sentences to be passed by him could look biased.
"Judge Aleksandrov said that the Investigating Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) had decided to cancel the refusal to open a criminal case against the law enforcers involved in Edigov's kidnapping and torture. Currently, an additional check is underway," says the press release of the HRC "Memorial".
