04 May 2005, 09:28
Torture in pre-trial detention
In a live broadcast on Echo of Moscow radio, Musa Ozdoyev, a member of the People's Assembly (legislature) of Ingushetia and leader of the Ingush regional division of the People's Party, announced detainees are tortured in a pre-trial detention centre of Ingushetia's Internal Affairs Ministry. Mr Ozdoyev says he learned about that while being kept in custody in the pre-trial detention centre to which he was delivered following his detention for organising an opposition action in Nazran on Saturday.
The lawmaker says "cruellest torture" was used in particular against the person who was in the next cell. "Everyone go through that there. People have their fingernails torn out and kneecaps broken with hammers," says Mr Ozdoyev. "I saw those people. This was in the pre-trial detention centre of Ingushetia's Internal Affairs Ministry."
The lawmaker said he was ready to "go down there with any commission and let those people tell the truth."
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