The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has posthumously awarded 15,500 euros to Ayub Tuntuev, a former bodyguard of the first president of Chechnya, Akhmat Kadyrov, in a lawsuit alleging torture in Vladimir IK-6. This was reported to Mediazona by the press service of the Justice Initiative, which represented the interests of the plaintiff.
The court in Strasbourg came to the conclusion that the Russian authorities violated the article on the prohibition of torture (Article 3 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and fundamental freedoms).
«Better take on one turnout.» The ordeal of the former guard Akhmat Kadyrov, who is taken to Russian prisons, forced to confess to crimes 15 years ago
According to the decision of the ECHR, in May 2015, six employees of the colony beat Tuntuev for an hour. A few days later, their colleagues from the FSB handcuffed the man, put a bag over his head, and threw the prisoner on the floor. Then he was threatened with sexual violence and beaten all over his body, demanding a confession to the crime.
Tuntuev was sentenced to 24 years in prison in 2008 in connection with a terrorist attack in the Chechen village of Znamenskoye. The man denied his involvement in the attack and said that he was on the day of the explosion at the base of the anti-terrorist center. Seven years later he was transferred to IK-6. According to Tuntuev, the Federal Penitentiary Service officers tortured him for the sake of testifying in the case of an attack on Pskov paratroopers, because of which he was added another 11 months to his sentence in 2017.
In March 2019, lawyer Tagir Shamsudinov was informed of the death of Tuntuev, he was told that the prisoner had committed suicide. At the same time, as Kadyrov's ex-bodyguard told his lawyer, the officers told him: «You won't get out alive, you're dead.» In addition, Tuntuev's relatives recalled the signs of beatings on the body of the deceased, but the experts of the Investigative Committee found no injuries.
While the man was in the colonies, human rights activists repeatedly filed complaints with the ECHR. In February 2021, the court considered the lawsuit filed in 2009 and awarded Tuntuev 100,000 euros. Another complaint of the «Justice Initiative» is still pending consideration.