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Daghestani Interior Ministry publishes video testimony of 14-year-old rape victim

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Daghestan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has published a video on social media of a 14-year-old girl testifying to facing years of sexual abuse at the hands of her neighbours. The release came as the authorities faced questions over allegations the police tortured one of the suspects into confessing and tortured the victim’s parents into implicating him. The ministry published the video on its official Instagram page on Sunday. In it, the girl, whose face is blurred, gives her full name a

Man ‘tortured into confessing to murder’ in Daghestan’s Khasavyurt
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Man ‘tortured into confessing to murder’ in Daghestan’s Khasavyurt

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A man in the Russian Republic of Daghestan has been tortured into confessing to murder, his lawyer says. Sapiyat Magomedova told OC Media she believes police in the city of Khasavyurt intended to pin other unsolved crimes on her client, Kamil Khayrudinov, as part of a drive to improve crime statistics. Khayrudinov’s wife, Zabiyat Bulatkhanova, told OC Media that she and her husband travelled to Moscow from the Daghestani city of Khasavyurt in August to work and pay off their debts. Accord

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