ECtHR awards compensation to six natives of Southern Russia for torture

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) recognized six natives of Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Kuban, and Chechnya, as victims of torture by law enforcers and awarded the compensations totalling 208,300 euros.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that on September 16, Russia ceased to be a party to the European Convention on Human Rights. However, the ECtHR has stated that it retains its competence to consider complaints directed against Russia, provided that they had been filed before that day. By September 16, there were 17,450 complaints against Russia pending before the ECtHR.

The ECtHR found that the Russian authorities violated Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights with regard to the complaints filed by 11 persons about violence used against them by law enforcers, the ECtHR reports on its website.

Among those to whom the ECtHR has awarded the compensation are five natives of Northern Caucasus. For example, the amount of 26,000 euros has been awarded by the ECtHR to each of Temirkan Ashabokov and Arthur Tanov, residents of Baksan, in compensation for torture in 2012.

The ECtHR awarded compensation of 33,800 euros to Imangazali Magomedov, a resident of Dagestan, who was beaten after his detention in 2014 and then found guilty of aiding and abetting militants and illegal possession of drugs and weapons.

The ECtHR recognized that Ayub Tuntuev, a former employee of the security service of the President of Chechnya, who was found dead in a penal colony in March 2019, had been beaten and tortured in a penal colony in the Vladimir Region in May 2015. The ECtHR awarded the compensation of 15,500 euros.