Chechen judge's son complains to ECtHR about torture

Today, lawyers of the "Committee Against Torture" (CaT) have appealed to the Strasbourg Court with a complaint about a violation of the rights of Ibragim Yangulbaev, a native of Chechnya. Human rights defenders pointed to the beating of Ibragim Yangulbaev by law enforcers and unjustified arrest.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported Ibragim Yangulbaev claimed that on May 22, 2017, he had been taken away from his house by law enforcers who beat him and tortured him to force him to give up the information about members of a group on the "VKontakte" social network, which criticized the working methods of the Chechen authorities. After that, Ibragim Yangulbaev was kept at a SIZO (pre-trial prison) for a year and a half until an article on inciting ethnic hatred was decriminalized, under which a criminal case had been instituted against him. Investigators refused to institute a case under the Ibragim Yangulbaev's complaint about torture. In April 2019, the court of Grozny upheld the above decision.

Today, due to the fact that no efficient investigation into the Ibragim Yangulbaev's complaint about torture had been carried out at the national level, a complaint has been filed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the "Committee against Torture" reports. According to the human rights defenders, with regard to Ibragim Yangulbaev, law enforcers violated Article 3 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights on the prohibition of torture and the right to an effective investigation, as well as Article 13 on the effective remedy and Article 5 on the right to liberty and security of person.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on February 20, 2019 at 02:59 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.