10:17, 18 July 2020

Consideration of complaint of Dagestani shepherds Gasanguseinov terminated

Murtazali and Patimat Gasanguseinov at a picket near the House of the Government of Dagestan. Photo by Patimat Makhmudova for the "Caucasian Knot"

A Makhachkala court has failed to consider the rights defenders' complaint about the refusal to initiate a criminal case against the law enforcer, who gave a reference about the murder of Gasanguseinov brothers in Dagestan. The advocate will continue seeking punishment for the head of the police department.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that that Gasanguseinov father and Djambulat Gasanov, an activist, after their pickets in November 2019, achieved that the head of the police department for the Shamil District, who had reported the murder of the brothers as two militants, received a disciplinary reprimand for his error. However, Gasanov and Gasanguseinov are sure that his involvement in the brothers' case was not just official negligence; therefore, they achieved a new check. In March, Gasanguseinov resumed his protest actions in Makhachkala demanding to investigate his sons' murder.

Nabi, 17, and Gasangusein, 19, Gasanguseinov were killed on August 23, 2016, during an operation in the Shamil District of Dagestan. Law enforcers declared them to be militants, but their fellow villagers wouldn't agree with this.

Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer of the "Committee against Torture" (CaT), believes that the above police boss should be held accountable for his report, since the investigator indicates that it became the ground for initiating a criminal case against the Gasanguseinov brothers.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on July 17, 2020 at 08:53 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Author: Alyona Sadovskaya

Source: CK correspondent