Tortures are the usual thing in Chechnya, right advocates are sure.
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Right Advocates Apply Tortures to Russia
Human Rights Watch promulgated yesterday the report about tortures in Chechnya. Right advocates had gathered documentary proofs for 82 cases of applying tortures and described in detail at least ten illegal places of imprisonment – private houses that are controlled by authorities loyal to Kadyrov. Official Chechnya rushed to blame the problem’s exaggeration on Human Rights Watch.
The tortures are widely and regularly applied in official and secret places of imprisonment in Chechnya, Human Rights Watch said in the report. Together with representatives of Memorial and Committee Against Tortures, the experts of Human Rights Watch visited Chechnya past April and September. The result of the trips was documentary proofs for 82 cases when the federal troops and the troops of Chechen Premier Ramzan Kadyrov detained and tortured the people.
Official Chechnya promptly rebuffed by claiming that the report doesn’t correspond to reality. “If there were some tortures, we would speak about this problem ourselves, the relatives of detained would speak about it,” Chechnya Vice Premier Ziyad Sabsabi announced yesterday.
Nevertheless, “there are cases when representatives of enforcement bodies apply impermissible methods during interrogations,” Chechnya’s Prosecutor Valery Kuznetsov acknowledged to Kommersant. Prosecutors have ten cases related to tortures, Kuznetsov said, adding the tortures couldn’t be viewed as something common to Chechnya exclusively. “You would find facts when policemen beat the detained in any region of Russia. Even in the West, you would find as many cases of tortures as you like,” Kuznetsov specified.
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All the Article in Russian as of Nov. 14, 2006
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