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Disability care home in Psedakh.
Crime

Ingushetia disability care home accused of chaining naked patients to benches

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Images have appeared online purportedly showing patients being abused at an Ingush care home for people with intellectual disabilities.  Images shared by Russian Telegram channel Baza [WARNING: DISTURBING IMAGERY] showed naked patients shackled to benches and to the wall in an empty tiled room. Also shown in the images were metal bowls from which the patients eat from using their hands.  The facility in Psedakh, a village in northwestern Ingushetia, caters to people who are unable to care

Photo: Filipp Kochetkov/TASS.
Human Rights

Prison riot in Vladikavkaz over alleged torture

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A prison riot has taken place at a penal colony in the North Ossetian capital, Vladikavkaz, over the alleged torture of prisoners. The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service stated that the protests on 15 October were suppressed on the same day, with a number of inmates transferred to penitentiary institutions in other regions. Local special police units were brought in to storm the facility.  The Investigative Committee of North Ossetia has launched a probe into the riots. The riot erupted

ECHR finds Russia responsible for disappearance and death of Chechen man
Chechnya

ECHR finds Russia responsible for disappearance and death of Chechen man

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The European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) has found the Russian state responsible for the disappearance and death of a Chechen man following his detention by security forces. The court noted that Russia had not submitted any evidence or explanation contradicting Saidakhmadov’s mother’s claim that her son was murdered by the authorities, and that therefore ‘the death of Aslanbek Saidakhmadov can be attributed to the State’. The court ruled that the state had also failed to investigate Saidak

The European Court of Human Rights. Photo via the Council of Europe.
Chechnya

‘The officer swore he would rape his sister’ — EHCR awards $1 million over North Caucasus tortures

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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Russia to pay compensation for the torture of 13 men from the North Caucasus between 2004–2006. On 9 February, the court issued a joint judgement in the case of Uspanov and others v Russia, ordering a total of €798,100 ($972,000) in compensation be paid to 13 applicants from the North Caucasus.  According to the court’s ruling, Russia was responsible for torturing the applicants, refusing to investigate reports of violence, unfair impriso

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