Court finds violation of detainees' rights in Makhachkala shelter

The court has obliged the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to pay compensations to three women who were beaten up by law enforcers during detention at a shelter, where law enforcers came there to take Khalimat Taramova, a native of Chechnya, away.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on June 10, 2021, Dagestani law enforcers and their Chechen colleagues came to an apartment-shelter for victims of domestic violence in Makhachkala to pick up Khalimat Taramova, who had fled from domestic violence. Svetlana Anokhina, a human rights defender and journalist, as well as Iraida Smirnova and Maisarat Kilyaskhanova, who were then in the shelter, received traumas.

The Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala has ordered the MIA to pay 3000 roubles to each of the three women; the women themselves demanded compensation of 1.5 million roubles in total, the human rights project "Team against Torture" (TaT)* reports in its Telegram channel.

"I think this is just a mockery. But the very fact that they admitted that an offense had been committed, and in my opinion, a crime, is already pleasing," Svetlana Anokhina has stated.

*The "Team against Torture" (TaT, formerly the "Committee against Torture" – CaT) was created by the lawyers who had earlier worked for the CaT, which was included into the register of the NCOs performing the functions of foreign agents.