Kadyrov: Employees’ Committee against Torture, “provoked a pogrom – Radio Azattyk

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov declared that employees “Committee against Torture” themselves provoked the attack on the organization’s office in Grozny, “to be glorified in the world press and become owners of new US Grant”.

In his Instagrame Kadyrov Committee staff called people “do not have to advocacy irrelevant” which, he said, “systematically create a tense atmosphere, trying to provoke riots in Grozny.” Chechen leader claims that the attack on human rights took place after they refused to rally participants under the windows of their office in the investigation of the murder of a resident of the Republic Jambulat Dadaeva, the federal wanted list.

The attack on the office of the Joint Mobile Group “Committee against torture “took place on Wednesday morning at a rally of protest in connection with the murder of his detention at Dadaeva Stavropol police on April 19. The Committee believes that the Chechen authorities organized a meeting specifically to cover attacks on human rights defenders.

According to the Internet edition “Rus2Web” employee of the company in Nizhny Novgorod, Oleg Habibrahmanov, to the “Committee against Torture” there have been no applications to conduct its own investigation into the death of Dadaeva and his family first saw the employees of the organization today at the rally. Habibrahmanov also said that the office in Grozny after the pogrom vanished and all the documents of the case, by the Committee.

The action at the office, “the Committee against Torture” was organized instead of the previously planned rally against the “information aggression against Chechnya and Russia”, launched, according to the authorities of the republic, independent Russian media (“Novaya Gazeta”, “Kommersant “TV channel” Rain “, the movement of” Open Russia “). Later, the meeting was canceled. The announcement about it is removed from the official websites of Chechen.

According to the journalist of “Novaya Gazeta” Elena Milashina, the Chechen authorities have canceled a meeting on the instructions of the Russian presidential administration. The action at the office, “the Committee against Torture” Milashina due to the fact that the organization, in its view, for a long time “annoys Kadyrov”.