Daghestan/Nuovo sequestro in Daghestan
Dagestan: Resident of Makhachkala Abducted
On October 28th 2011 a resident of the city of Makhachkala of the Republic of Dagestan, Saadula Alievich Abusupianov, wrote to Human Rights Centre ‘Memorial’ with the information that his brother Rizvan Abusupianov, born 1973 in the village of Khutrakh in the Tsuntinskii region of the Republic of Dagestan and living at 60 Lenin Street, Shamkhal district, Makhachkala, was abducted on October 27th.
Rizvan and Saadula were traders working at Tsumadinskii market in the republic’s capital. According to one of the market’s security guards, Rizvan drove out of the market in a VAZ-2114 car, registration M682BO 05. Unexpectedly, the road was blocked by two cars, one silver and one white, out of which came eight people in civilian clothes. They dragged Rizvan out of his car, placed a bag over his head, and sat him in the white car. Witnesses ran up to the cars in an attempt to prevent the abduction, but a kidnapper put a gun to one of their heads and cried: ‘If you don’t want to die, then get out of here!’ One of the kidnappers then got into the driver’s seat of Rizvan’s car and they all drove off towards Semender, a district in Makhachkala.
Around 8pm in the evening of that same day Saadula went to the Kirov regional Department of Internal Affairs for Makhachkala. According to him, the officer on duty informed him that abductions were the prosecutor’s business. Saadula went to the republic prosecutor, but they did not admit him, saying that the prosecutor on duty was not there.
On October 28th at 8am Saadula went to see the prosecutor again but was told that the prosecutor on duty was away.
HRC ‘Memorial’ is aware of the fact that in October 2010 in the city of Kizlyar in Dagestan Rizvan’s younger brother Sheykhulislam was abducted and killed. His body was found in his car in the Babayurtovskii region in Dagestan, bearing knife wounds and evidence of torture.
Abusupianov’s relatives worry that his kidnappers will beat and torture Rizvan. They also fear for their own lives and security. In his message, Saadula asked for help in finding his brother.
October 31, 2011
http://www.memo.ru/eng/news/index.htm