17 January 2006, 19:47
Abducted Chechen released after torture
Officers of unidentified law enforcement agencies driving a UAZ and a VAZ-2107 vehicle brought away Beksolt Derbiyev from his home in Kotar-Yurt, Achkhoi-Martan district, on 15 January. Some of the military men wore masks and the others did not, according to eyewitnesses, the Council of Nongovernmental Organisations reports in a message received by Caucasian Knot.
Mr Derbiyev was taken out into the street and then one of the abductors asked another one in a mask who was standing near him: "It's him?" The latter gave the affirmative answer. After that, they put Beksolt Derbiyev into a vehicle and brought him away.
On the next day, after severe beating and torture, the abductors threw Mr Derbiyev out on the outskirts of Kotar-Yurt, his home village. There is information that he has some fingers and toes broken and his kidneys injured and that he is currently in a very grave condition.
