Relatives tell about hard custody conditions of Ingushes detained in Egypt

The Ingush students, detained in August in Cairo, are kept in concrete cells without mattresses and normal food, their relatives told the "Caucasian Knot".

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on November 7, it became known that five students from Ingushetia were detained during their stay in Egypt. Their whereabouts remain unknown for almost three months already, a sister of one of them has stated. On December 5, relatives of the missing residents of Ingushetia handed over an appeal to the Embassy of Egypt to Russia demanding to help in searching for the young people, and held a solo picket at the Embassy demanding the return their sons home.

On November 6, five relatives of the students who had disappeared in Egypt filed an application addressed to President Putin with a request to help in finding their relatives. The application lists the personal data of all the missing young people, Djannat Dugieva, one of the relatives, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

According to her story, in 2017, her son Khizir went to Egypt to study the Arabic language and joined the Medina Islamic University. On August 14, 2018, the young man came to Cairo to visit his friends, who lived in a rented apartment; and in the evening several "law enforcers" broke into the apartment and "in tough manner" detained everyone who was there.

According to his mother's information, Khizir and other students "were taken away to some unknown place." Ms Dugieva learned about it two months after the detention from eyewitnesses, young people from Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia, who were also detained but later released. She has added that Khizir had no known any of other detainees before his travel to Egypt.

According to the released young people, all the detainees were taken to a "secret Egyptian military base" and "interrogated for a long time." "Most of the detainees were released; they said that the rest were kept in inhuman conditions. They sleep on a concrete floor, without mattresses, and fed once a day with leftovers," Djannat Dugieva has stated.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on December 7, 2018 at 11:24 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.