Posted on 03/11/2015 6:52:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The main suspect in Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov's killing has signs of torture on his body and was forced to confess to the shooting, a human rights activist said Wednesday.
Zaur Dadaev was arrested in Ingushetia, a region in the North Caucasus, on Saturday and taken to Moscow, where he was formally charged along with another suspect, Anzor Gubashev.
Russian state-controlled media reported earlier this week that Dadaev had confessed his guilt in a verbal statement, though the judge residing over his first hearing said that confession was not made in court.
Andrei Babushkin, a member of Russia's Human Rights Council, told The Associated Press that he visited the detention centre where main suspect Dadaev had been held on Tuesday.
Babushkin said there were abrasions on Dadaev's body and that he had been "tortured by those who detained him" and later taken to the Investigative Committee, where "he was forced to confess."
In an interview published with the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets by journalist Eva Merkacheva, Dadaev said that he had been detained for two days with a bag over his head.
"They shouted at me all the time: 'Have you killed Nemtsov?' I told them, 'No'," he was quoted as saying.
When investigators told him that a friend who had been detained "would be released if I confessed, I agreed. I thought they would save him, and that I would be brought to Moscow alive."
Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement that Babushkin and a journalist accompanying him had been allowed to visit Dadaev's prison cell only to see the conditions under which he was being held, but had broken the law by publicizing details about the case.
"Such actions may be regarded as interference in the investigation," the statement said.
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Check out the trial of the guys who tried to kill Hitler and you will see what is coming for this guy, although likely in private. And no doubt this guy is an innocent man plucked off the streets to stand trial.
Not unlike Stalin’s murder of Leningrad party boss Sergei Mironovich Kirov by Stalin’s goons.
Posting pro-chechen pro-islamic-terrorist sentiments will not win you much sympathy for your cause, whatever that may be.
If Kremlin would have arrested some random pedophile and claimed he was the one who murdered Nemtsov then would you say those calling it bullshit are defending pedophilia?
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