Grozny. Chechnya. Photo by Magomed Magomedov for the "Caucasian Knot"

13 January 2017, 19:17

HRC "Memorial": information about murder of Madina Shakhbieva, detained in Chechnya, confirmed

The information about the fact that Madina Shakhbieva, an alleged member of a group of militants, wounded during a special operation in Grozny, was taken away from hospital, shot dead and buried, has been confirmed by a reliable source, said the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on December 17, 2016, in Grozny, policemen were attacked, after which a large-scale special operation was deployed in the city, in which, according to power agents, seven suspected militants were killed and four others were detained. A source from the Chechen Ministry of Public Health reported that three wounded detainees were in hospital, but armed men took them away and killed. Among those killed was Madina Shakhbieva, born in 1998, whom law enforcers called a girlfriend of Islam Altemirov, killed in the special operation.

According to the source, law enforcers were among the relatives of the detained girl; besides, Madina's relatives "have refused from her."

Rights defenders have added that the sent requests to the prosecutor's office, Department of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, as well as to the republic's department of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), asking to check the information about the murder of the detainees.

On December 31, 2016, the page of Ramzan Kadyrov in the Instagram posted a refutation of the information about the killings of the wounded detainees.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

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