09 June 2023, 20:17
Temirkhan Amakhanov, beaten up in Dagestan, and his advocates satisfied with verdict to law enforcers
Advocates of Temirkhan Amakhanov, a resident of Derbent, are satisfied with the judgement of the court, which has sentenced the law enforcers, who had beaten Temirkhan up, to imprisonment, and are not planning to appeal against it. Amakhanov himself said that he still has health problems, although six years have passed since the beating.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that a court in Derbent found the law enforcers, Gasan Adalov and Magomed Yunusov, guilty of causing grievous bodily harm to the health of Temirkhan Amakhanov and sentenced them to four years in jail each.
In April 2016, two policemen broke into Amakhanov's house, attacked him, and when he began to defend himself, one of them fired a pistol. A year later, law enforcers took him to the station and beat him up, so that Amakhanov had his spleen amputated. For several years, Amakhanov tried to initiate a criminal case against these law enforcers; and only in 2019, after repeated complaints about the investigator's inaction, the policemen were called in for abuse of power.
"I think it's enough; and I see no reason to appeal against it," Nadezhda Borodkina, one of Amakhanov's advocates, has commented on the court's ruling.
For the time of the inquiry, the accused law enforcers were not in custody; they were under recognizance not to leave the place. If they had been placed in custody from the very beginning, the court would have resorted to a milder verdict, Ms Borodkina believes.
According to Amakhanov himself, he periodically undergoes rehabilitation courses after the traumas received as a result of beatings by law enforcers. "I still have no health. I passed the tests, and I'm going to the hospital again," he said.
According to his story, during the inquiry and the trial, the law enforcers themselves did not try to resort to reconciliation; on the contrary, only aggressive statements were heard from them. "They were trying to intimidate me," he has stated.
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on June 8, 2023 at 09:53 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
Source: СK correspondent
