Human rights defenders claim violation of rights of a convict from Ingushetia

Abdul-Malik Albagachiev, a native of Ingushetia, who is serving his sentence in the Astrakhan Region, is not provided with proper medical care, and he is also regularly placed in a ShIZO (punishment cell), the “Public Verdict Foundation”* reports.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that on January 24, 2022, at a picket held in front of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Astrakhan Region, human rights defender Zarema Barakhoeva claimed that the rights of Abdul-Malik Albagachiev had been violated. The man is being subjected to unreasonable punishments in the penal colony, and law enforcers thus put pressure on him, complains Marzhan Albagachieva, a mother of the convict.

Abdul-Malik Albagachiev is serving his sentence in the penal colony in the Astrakhan Region, where he was transferred after treatment in a prison hospital. The man has an iron plate in his collarbone that should have been removed a long time ago, but prison doctors do not send him to the hospital for surgery. During all this time, Abdul-Malik Albagachiev is limited in his movements, because his right hand stays in a bandage.

The health state of Abdul-Malik Albagachiev was undermined by torture, the human rights defenders report. According to the defence, the law enforcers tried to force Abdul-Malik Albagachiev to confess that he had fought in Syria for the “Islamic State” (IS, a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, – note of the “Caucasian Knot”).

The human rights defenders recalled that a criminal case was instituted after Abdul-Malik Albagachiev had filed a complaint about torture, but the investigation was suspended, since the law enforcer pointed out by Abdul-Malik Albagachiev as involved in torture perished.

*Included by the Russian Minister of Justice (MoJ) into the register of foreign agents.