Ismail Isaev, convicted in the case of administration of an opposition Chechen telegram chat, was placed in the punishment cell IK-11 in the Krasnodar Territory for the second time in a row. This was reported to Mediazona in the SOS crisis group.
For the first time, Isaev was sent to the ShIZO without explanation for 15 days on July 21. On August 6, he was released, but then placed back in isolation. This time, he was also not told the reasons and was not told when he would be released. The young man is kept in the ShIZO for 19 days.
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The brothers Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev were detained in February 2021 in Nizhny Novgorod and taken to Chechnya. Later, they were sent to a pre-trial detention center, where they went on a hunger strike, which they held for more than two weeks.
According to investigators, the brothers corresponded with Rustam Borchashvili, a member of an illegal armed group, and in June 2020 they handed him a package of food. Isaev and Magomadov plead not guilty and insist that the case was fabricated.
During the investigation, lawyers were regularly not allowed to see the brothers; they talked about torture in SIZO-1 in Grozny. The Investigative Committee refused to open a case, considering their statements “aimed at alleviating the fate of the unlawful acts committed.” The decision not to file a case also stated that the brothers' requests to transfer their case to another region related to their «non-traditional sexual orientation«.
Isaev and Magomadov were found guilty in the case of complicity in participation in an illegal armed group (part 5 of article 33, part 2 of article 208 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced to terms of up to eight years in prison.
In July, Salekh Magamadov disappeared from prison No. 2 «Vladimir Central».