Another Police Abuse Case Opened in Tatarstan

© RIA NovostiAnother criminal case has been opened against police officers from the notorious Dalny police department in Kazan
Another criminal case has been opened against police officers from the notorious Dalny police department in Kazan - Sputnik International
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Another criminal case has been opened against police officers from the notorious Dalny police department in Kazan, the capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan in the Volga Federal District, investigators said.

Another criminal case has been opened against police officers from the notorious Dalny police department in Kazan, the capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan in the Volga Federal District, investigators said.

Investigators said on Wednesday that police officers took a market vendor to a police station in July 2011 when he refused to obey them when they told him to stop working. The officers, said to have threatened the vendor with violence, have been charged with abuse of office.

The Dalny police department gained notoriety in March, after a detainee died in custody after police officers allegedly sodomized him with a bottle.

The victim, Kazan resident Sergei Nazarov, 52, died while being treated in hospital for severe colon damage, shortly after his arrest on March 9. Police say Nazarov was detained for disorderly conduct, but his relatives claim the charges against him may be false.

Nazarov managed to tell medical staff at the hospital that he was raped and beaten up by policemen, according to his relatives. Preliminary examinations found his injuries were caused by a blunt object, and “he could not have done it to himself.”

The five charged police officers in the Nazarov case were detained, the police department was renamed, and the interior minister of Tatarstan lost his job over the incident. Many more cases of police abuse have come to light across Russia since.

 

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