28 November 2017, 21:38

Zaur Shamsudinov's relatives want to know about his fate

Since November 15, relatives of Zaur Shamsudinov, a detained resident of Dagestan, cannot obtain information from police about his whereabouts. He is kept at the police station, they suppose.

According to his relatives, on November 15 "some armed people" came to his house in the village of Novotsatanikh, Babayurt District, and searched the house. They announced that they had found cartridges; and took Zaur away with them, said his brother Alikhan Shamsudinov.

Alikhan addressed his complaint about law enforcers' actions to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". According to his story, Zaur "can be persecuted for his friendship with Shamil Saipulaev, the head of the village, who disappeared several years ago."

"There are various rumours that he had left for Syria, or was kidnapped," Alikhan Shamsudinov said.

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

Author: Rasul Magomedov Source: CK correspondent

All news
НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ООО “МЕМО”, ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ООО “МЕМО”.

December 23, 2024 23:43

December 23, 2024 21:47

  • Researchers name action motives and methods of Caucasian draft dodgers

    Researchers have found out how men who are in areas at risk of conscription and mobilization into the Russian Army, but would not take part in military operations, choose their life strategies. They have also compared the motives and methods of action of residents of Russian central regions with those in Northern Caucasus.

December 23, 2024 20:12

December 22, 2024 20:54

  • Russian SAM names conditions for permissible polygamy for Muslims

    As follows from a fatwa (a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (sharia), – note of the “Caucasian Knot”) of the Ulema Council of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of Russia, polygamy is permissible for Muslim men in Russia, and a Muslim can be in a religious marriage with four women with fair and equal treatment of all his wives.

December 22, 2024 20:13

News archive