"Dagestan Mothers" inform Posecutor's Office about tortures in SIZO of Makhachkala

The NGO "Dagestan Mothers for Human Rights" has addressed the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan with a petition stating that detainee Ilyas Dibirov is exposed to tortures at the Pre-Trial Detention Facility (SIZO) of Makhachkala.

According to Ilyas Dibirov's mother, prosecution of her son by workers of law enforcement bodies had started from the moment, when he tried to search his missing brother - Ramaz Dibirov.

According to the relatives, Ramaz Dibirov was kidnapped this April by unknown persons in camouflage, and nobody has ever seen or known of him since.

Ilyas Dibirov was detained by militiamen in the city of Izberbash on November 15. At detention, he tried to run away, and militiamen opened fire and wounded Dibirov in his leg.

Dibirov's mother has explained that Ilyas was just frightened and thought that they would kidnap him like his brother; therefore, he tried to escape.

When several days after detention, an advocate was admitted to Ilyas Dibirov, the latter told him that under tortures he had been forced to sign some papers and declared his official refusal from any evidences fixed in the papers.

The application lodged by the "Dagestan Mothers" to the Republic's Prosecutor's Office runs, in particular, that unknown persons took Dibirov out of the SIZO and subjected to tortures. As a result, "Dibirov has his collar bone broken and his thorax damaged. As a result of beating, his kidneys and Adam's apple are heavily injured."

Advocate Aziz Kurbanov has informed the journalists that, according to Dibirov, "he was beaten by people in masks, presumably Russians." Dibirov's relatives assume that they could be fighters of special troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, or GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff). The people who were beating Dibirov did not call names and addressed each other by special call signs.

In spite of numerous traumas, Dibirov was rendered neither medical aid nor forensic-medical examination.