Ingush protest police reprisals

Between 150-200 residents of the Ingush village of Surkhakhi congregated on June 25 to discuss the June 17 killing of villager Ruslan Aushev and the detention and torture of his relative Magomed Aushev by security personnel who sought to recruit him as an informer for the Federal Security Service (FSB), ingushetiya.ru reported. Russian security agencies subsequently identified Ruslan Aushev as one of the organizers of the June 2004 multiple raids on police and security facilities in Ingushetia.

On June 22, while Magomed Aushev was being questioned by Ingush police about his public statement detailing how he was detained and mistreated, North Ossetian FSB personnel searched his home and threatened members of his family, according to ingushetiya.ru.

Addressing the June 25 gathering in Surkhakhi, opposition parliament deputy Bamatgirey Mankiyev laid the blame for arbitrary reprisals committed by the law-enforcement and security agencies on the reluctance of Ingushetian President Murat Zyazikov to take resolute action to curb such abuses, ingushetiya.ru reported.

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