14 February 2008, 15:22
Residents of Dagestan capital accuse law enforcement bodies of kidnapping
Two residents of the capital of Dagestan - Dzhabir Kamaludinov and Shamil Omarov - declare that they were kidnapped by law enforcement bodies. They disappeared in the end of January and returned home in a week with bodily injuries.
Today, Kamaludinov and Omarov told journalists about details of their kidnapping at a press conference held in Makhachkala. Dzhabir Kamaludinov was kidnapped on January 29 and brought to some deserted base in the vicinity of Makhachkala. His friend Shamil Omarov was brought there on the following day. They were kept in different rooms. Three days after Kamaludinov's kidnapping, they both were taken to the territory of Chechnya, where they were kept in a tent and interrogated.
On the fifth day after kidnapping, they were taken back to Dagestan. Dzhamir Kamaludinov was put out of the car on the "Kavkaz" Federal Highway near Kizilyurt, and Shamil Omarov - near his house in Makhachkala.
"Since we pray and administer rites, they tried to find out our contacts in the religious environment. During interrogation, they used illegal methods of fact-finding. However, soon the kidnappers understood that we don't have the information they were looking for, that is why they released us. We have no ties among religious people, we seldom communicate, just go to work and back home," the "Gazeta.Ru" quotes Kamaludinov as saying.
According to Kamaludinov, the kidnappers asked questions and exerted psychological and physical pressure; they were armed and dressed in civil clothes, the RIA "Dagestan" reports.
