Gasanguseynov killings

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The Gasanguseynov brothers. Image via Memorial.

Daghestan

Russia’s killing of teen shepherds ‘unlawful’, court rules

by OC Media

•3 min read

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that the killing of two teenage shepherds by Russian security services in 2016 was unlawful. The brothers Nabi and Gasanguseyn Gasanguseynov, aged 17 and 19, were shot dead in August 2016 near their home village of Goor-Khindakh, in the Shamil District of Daghestan. The court found that Russia violated two articles of the European Convention on Human Rights, the right to life as well as the right to an effective remedy, for their failure to

Daghestan

Father of slain teenage shepherds resumes protest in Daghestan

by OC Media

•4 min read

The father of two teenage shepherds shot dead in the Russian Republic of Daghestan has resumed protesting in front of the republic’s government offices. Murtazali Gasanguseynov, whose sons were shot dead in the Shamil District of Daghestan in August 2016, resumed his single-person picket on Monday in the central square of the Daghestani capital Makhachkala. Gasanguseynov was demanding that the authorities authorise a larger protest and that they bring to justice his son’s killers. Seve

Daghestan

Parents protest teen shepherds’ murders in Daghestan

by OC Media

•5 min read

The parents of two teenage shepherds gunned down in the Russian Republic of Daghestan have began a protest in front of the republic’s government building demanding their killings be properly investigated. While the authorities initially claimed the brothers were militants killed in a shootout with police, charges against them were later dropped and a murder investigation opened. Sevnteen-year-old Nabi Gasanguseynov and his 19-year-old brother Gasanguseyn were shot dead on the night of 23 Au