"7x7": Dagestani native sentenced for terrorism claims torture

In Yaroslavl, law enforcers planted explosives to Arthur Kadiev, a native of Dagestan, and tortured him to force him to confess to plotting a terror act, the journal "7x7"reports.

In November 2019, in Yaroslavl, the Second Western Military District Court found four young Muslims guilty of plotting a terror act. Arthur Kadiev, a 29-year-old native of Dagestan, was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment.

Law enforcers claim that during a search at the defendant's place, they found on a shelf an improvised explosive device (IED) ‑ a plastic bottle with powder ‑ hidden among bed linen. According to Akhmedpasha Kadiev, a father of the sentenced man, who worked as an investigator in Dagestan, field investigators failed to involve combat engineers in the search, but independently detected that they had found an IED and neutralized it by their own efforts. Akhmedpasha Kadiev also believes that his son's fingerprints appeared on the bottle during the search, after a plastic object had been put in his hands.

According to Arthur Kadiev himself, immediately after the searches, he was taken to a room where he was tortured with electric current and doused with water with a plastic bag pulled over his head. Arthur Kadiev said he tried to endure torture until the law enforcers threatened that they would torture his wife, who had given birth to a baby several months ago.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on March 5, 2020 at 05:51 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.