12:56, 8 October 2026

The court recognized the actions of the investigator in the case of Kulyakov as illegal.

The Lenin Court of Stavropol ordered the investigator in the case of Eduard Kulbyakov to provide the materials of the investigation. Human rights activists intend to seek the investigator's disciplinary accountability.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot", Stavropol investigators refused 15 times to initiate a criminal case regarding the torture of local resident Eldar Kulyakov. The case of theft, which Kulyakov confessed to under torture, will be re-examined by the court.

In May 2024, law enforcement officers detained Eldar Kulyakov, a resident of the village of Suvorovskaya, and tortured him with electricity, demanding that he write a confession. According to his father, Kulyakov was also pressured to testify against the head of one of the police departments. In spring 2026, the Pregrony District Court of Stavropol Krai sentenced Eldar Kulyakov, who accused law enforcement officers of electric torture, to four years in a penal colony, finding him guilty of theft. According to Kulyakov's father, who was accused of theft, the court was artificially delayed, and the prosecution behaved rudely.

The Lenin Court of Stavropol today upheld the complaint of Kulyakov's representative regarding the illegality of the investigator's decision to refuse to provide the investigation materials for review on the grounds of lack of procedural status, reported a representative of the Committee Against Torture.*

"By this same decision, the court ordered the investigator to rectify the violation. In the future, Kulyakov's representatives intend to review the investigation materials, seek the disciplinary accountability of the investigators for both the failure to provide materials and the delays in the investigation," the Committee Against Torture* reported.

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Translated automatically via OpenAI from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/427292