Mutaliev assassinated in Ingushetia had asked for help in searching his brother

One of the casualties of the explosion in Nazran (Ingushetia) - Khasan Mutaliev, declared by power agents to be terrorist, in 2007 addressed human rights activist for help in searching his brother and defending his rights.

Mutaliev's application, submitted on March 15, 2007, to Oleg Orlov, head of the HRC "Memorial", said that at about 6 a.m. on that day a group of 20-25 armed persons in masks rushed into Mutaliev's house located at No. 61 Kievskaya Street in Malgobek; the intruders spoke the Russian and Ossetian languages.

"The militaries did not present themselves and failed to show the search sanction; they behaved rudely and cursed. After a hasty search they took away my brother, Mutaliev, Khusen Uvaisovich, born in 1980. When they took him out of the yard and brought to the car, they began beating him, at that moment Khusen broke out and ran away. They opened automatic fire on him, and when he fell down, the militaries ran up to him, pushed him into a 'Volga' car and quickly left. I followed the column up to border with Ossetia. At the Kantyshev checkpoint it was stopped by a road policeman; they presented a special pass to him and drove further," Mr Mutaliev wrote.

According to Khasan Mutaliev, his brother Khusen had been arrested on September 21, 2006; they kept him in the GOVD (City Militia Department) of Malgobek for three days, "where he was beaten and forced to self-accuse; then, he was transferred to Nazran ROVD, kept for seven more day there and then released."

Applicant Mutaliev and two more persons announced to be militants were named among those killed by an explosion in the course of a special operation in Nazran.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that yesterday, on February 12, in Nazran, power agents undertook a special operation, during which they blocked a private house. When militiamen started checking passports, somebody opened fire on them. The skirmish lasted for about an hour, then, the house was blown up. The law enforcement bodies assert that the militants blew themselves up.

A source in the law enforcement bodies told the "Interfax" that four OMON (Special Militia) officers were killed by the explosion, 18 militiamen, three employees of other law enforcement bodies and three civilians-local residents received wounds and contusions.

According to the spokesman of the FSB Department for Ingushetia, one of the casualties of the explosion - local resident Khasan Mutaliev, born in 1975, was involved in a series of armed attacks on employees of law enforcement bodies.