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| Natives of Dagestan convicted in murder case in Kalmyk colony |
| 2024-02-07 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] The Supreme Court of Kalmykia found natives of Dagestan Magomed Atimagomedov and Daud Kuramagomedov guilty of attempting to escape, murder and attempted murder, and disrupting the work of a colony. Atimagomedov was sentenced to 25 years in prison, and Kuramagomedov to life imprisonment. As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, in September 2022, investigators in Kalmykia opened a criminal case against prisoners from Dagestan Magomed Atimagomedov and Daud (also referred to as Davud) Kuramagomedov, who are accused of attacking colony employees, on calls for mass riots. According to lawyers, their clients were severely beaten in the colony. Magomed Atimagomedov, who is accused of murdering a colony employee, said that he planned to escape because FSIN officers threatened to charge him with terrorism charges, but he was not involved in the murder, and signed the testimony under pressure. Atimagomedov is being threatened, he fears for his life, lawyer Aza Aliyeva reported in August 2022. A court in Kalmykia found two defendants serving sentences in colony No. 2 guilty of attempted escape with the use of life-threatening violence, murder and attempted murder, and disruption of the activities of the colony. One of the prisoners was also accused of intentionally causing moderate bodily harm, and he was also found guilty under this article. According to the investigation and the court, on August 5, 2022, two convicts deliberately “committed an attack on colony employees, causing them injuries of varying degrees of severity.” “As a result of the incident, the victims were taken to a medical institution, where one of them died, the second suffered serious harm to health. At the same moment, one of the accused attempted to murder one of the convicts serving a sentence in a correctional institution. Later that same day the accused entered the dormitory territory, where, resisting arrest, using the above objects, they used violence, including life-threatening violence, against six correctional facility employees who received injuries of varying severity,” the Investigative Committee of Russia for Kalmykia published the version of the investigation. By a court verdict, one of the defendants was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 25 years of special regime with restriction of freedom for a period of two years, the second defendant in the criminal case was sentenced to life imprisonment in a special regime correctional colony. Compensation for moral damage in the amount of 1 million rubles each was recovered from those convicted in favor of the victim, as indicated in the department’s message on the page in “Contact” dated February 5. Lawyer Aza Aliyeva reported that earlier her client and Kuramagomedov refused lawyers. In her opinion, this was a wrong decision and a shorter sentence could have been achieved - Atimagomedov was sentenced to 25 years in prison. “Atimagomedov <...> said that he made such a decision due to the fact that he wants to completely rely on the Almighty and accept what is destined for him without a fight. There were many violations and contradictions in the case, there were many opportunities in court to refer to those or other gaps in the investigation, but, alas, Magomed did not leave such an opportunity for me, as his defense attorney. It was a very wrong decision, but this is the decision of my client, and I cannot help but accept it," the lawyer replied, quoting her words "Draft". Atimagomedov’s mother Zaira said that the family would really like to appeal the verdict, but her son has no plans, the publication says. Aliyeva added that in connection with the torture case, four colony employees are in pre-trial detention center, one is under house arrest. As the " Caucasian Knot " wrote, five colony employees were taken into custody on suspicion of using violence against prisoners. Natives of Dagestan who were beaten in the Kalmyk colony said that they were tortured by about 40 people, most of whom were not taken into custody, said the lawyer of one of the prisoners, Aza Aliyeva. In January 2023, four colony employees refused to admit guilt of involvement in torture, and another refused to answer questions when confronted. On March 12, 2023, it became known that the defense of one of the prisoners, Magomed Atimagomedov, managed to achieve the initiation of a second criminal case of torture against two colony employees, Baatar Bakanov and Arman Sagipov. On March 26, 2023, it became known about the arrest of a sixth suspect in torture. |
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