25 August 2022, 14:25
Rights defender Kalyapin hospitalized after beating
Igor Kalyapin, the founder of the "Committee against Torture"* (CaT) was taken to the hospital with a suspected concussion after being beaten up.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in January posters accusing Igor Kalyapin of supporting terrorists appeared on the doors of his mother's apartment. Then Igor suggested that the posters were a result of Ramzan Kadyrov's statement.
On January 24, 2022, Kadyrov, commenting on the abduction of the mother of Abubakar Yangulbaev, a CaT's lawyer, treated Igor Kalyapin, the head of the committee, and Elena Milashina, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", as terrorist accomplices.
On August 24, in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Kalyapin was attacked by an unknown person who tried to cut his face and strangle him, the Human Rights Council (HRC) reported in his Telegram channel.
According to Natalia Kurekina, the press secretary for the "Team against Torture"*, the attacker introduced himself to Kalyapin as the head of a law enforcement body, and during the conversation, he attacked the rights defender, broke the door glass and cut his face with splinters, the "Sota" outlet writes.
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on August 25, 2022 at 11:56 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
Source: Caucasian Knot
