Chechen who appealed to European Court killed in Russian prison

The Chechen National Salvation Committee reports that 25-year-old Azamat Sultanovich Uspayev passed away on 1 July, 2007, in a prison colony in the Murmansk area. According to the official version of the incident, Azamat died as a result of an accident, i.e. that he and two other Chechens "fell" from the second floor for unknown reasons. The administration of the colony determined that this was an accident. The other two Chechens remained alive, but suffered serious injuries from their "fall".

However, the ChNSC learned from a source that Uspayev was battered to death on 1 July in the Murmansk colony.

In 2003, Azamat was sentenced to 17 years of prison on a manufactured charge by the puppet "Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic". Azamat didn't confess for a long time, because he wasn't guilty of anything, but he was forced to do so after being tortured in the occupation's "ORB-2" detention. They even threatened to bring his father Sultan and to thrash him in his presence. In spite of the farfetchedness of the charges, the so-called "Supreme Court of the RF" left the sentence unchanged after a cassation.

Azamat had complained to the European Human Rights Court in June 2007.

Source: Chechen Press

Kavkaz Center