The Chairman of the human rights organization” the CPT “Igor Kalyapin
In the Terrible attacked the chairman of the human rights organization “Committee for the prevention of torture” Igor Kalyapin. Unknown persons attacked him at the entrance to the hotel “Grozny City”, located in the center of the Chechen capital
Attack
The attack on the head of the “Committee for the Prevention of Torture” Igor Kalyapin was committed on Wednesday evening, 16 March. As told RBC representative of the human rights organization Dmitry Utukin to Kalyapin in the room “Grozny City” came to the police and the manager and asked him to leave the hotel without explanation. When Kalyapin left the building with the things he was attacked by “some young men in civilian clothes and black masks, attacked him and threw eggs,” said Utukin.
Utukin said, it is not known how badly damaged Kalyapin. According Utukina in Grozny Kalyapin was in connection with the incident, which occurred on March 9 near the Chechen-Ingush border; then attacked by unknown employees “CPT” and journalists. The attackers dragged the journalist out of the car and beat them, and set fire to a minibus, then disappeared in the direction of Chechnya.
After the attack was a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism), Article 162 of the Criminal Code (robbery) and Article 167 of the Criminal Code (intentional destruction of property). Victims and witnesses in the case were taken into goszaschitu.
As explained Utukin, police brought in Kalyapin MIA management on Grozny. Sam Kalyapin told RBC that is on the police interrogation. According to the human rights organization, it is not examined by physicians, but “head intact, about the hands and feet is not yet known.” In a conversation with TASS Kalyapin suggested that he was attacked by the same people who had previously beaten a group of human rights activists and journalists on the border of Chechnya and Ingushetia.
Later Utukin said that the attackers were about 15 people. “Kalyapin pelted with eggs, cake, flour and green paint. No serious injuries he was not struck, “- wrote Utukin in your account in Twitter
Acting Minister of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic of Apti Alaudinov told” Interfax “that the police carried out checks on the application Kalyapin about. that he was pelted with eggs and cakes in Grozny.
The “Mediazona” hotel management said that they knew nothing about the attack. “Kalyapin himself evicted from the hotel, as you wish. Sorry, I would like to continue to work, if you do not mind, “- said the publication of a man who introduced himself as an administrator of the hotel. The RBC hotel administration confirmed the information that Kalyapin evicted himself, without the participation of the police.
According to the Facebook page of the Joint Mobile Group of the “Committee for the Prevention of Torture”, the hotel Kalyapin was supposed to meet with “representatives of the media and a member of the human Rights Council at the head of the Czech Republic Hedoy Saratova “. Leave the number of human rights defender asked after a few minutes after the settlement.
Saratov RBC confirmed that planned to meet with Kalyapin, but about 18:30 she called the head of the Presidential Council on Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov said that the attacked Kalyapin .
According to “Radio Liberty”, the attackers, the young people of strong build, did not delay the police, saying, “they do not know who it is, and that their identity can not be established.” According to the publication, Kalyapin was due to meet with journalists and human rights activists, who came to the trial of Stanislav Klyha Ukrainians and Nicholas Karpyuk.
A witness of the incident told RBC that approximately at 19:10 Kalyapin left at the urging of a room protection of property and the man who introduced “the general director of the hotel.” They said that Kalyapin must leave because he “speaks badly about the head of the republic.” The attack happened at him on the street: the human rights activist was surrounded by people in medical masks, after which he fell to the ground and covered his head with his hands, said an eyewitness
A spokesman for Kadyrov, Alvi Karimov refused to comment on the attack on Kalyapin.. “What do you call me, I was not a witness. I you do not have much to talk about, you already have a prevailing opinion “, – said Karimov RBC and hung up
The defeat apartment
9 March three. hours after the attacks on journalists, unknown tried to enter the headquarters of the defenders of the Joint mobile group “CPT” in the Ingush village of Yandare. According Utukina, armed men came to the office on five cars, one of them turned off the CCTV cameras installed in the entrance, the other three, according to him, climbed into the room through the window.
«Men in camouflage uniforms, in masks, armed with automatic weapons, “- he described the attackers Utukin, noting that they were” professionally equipped. ” According to the lawyer, unknown persons tried to knock the metal door. In a conversation with RBC Utukin he said that the apartment is almost not used, it only rested staff committee. The existence of this office possible human rights activists tried to keep secret. Most of the work was carried out in Grozny, as a staging post in the Ingush village was organized after the pogrom in Grozny office in June 2015.
Kadyrov Confrontation and Kalyapin
In “CPT” (formerly “Committee against torture”), a long history of confrontation with the Chechen authorities. After the terrorist attack in Grozny in December 2014, when he was captured by the printing house, Ramzan Kadyrov proposed to demolish the house of families of terrorists, to punish them for the actions of relatives. In response, the head of the PPC, a member of the Presidential Human Rights Council Igor Kalyapin called the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General’s Office to verify the words of the Chechen leader. Soon in Grozny held a rally whose participants came out with placards against Kalyapin. After the completion of the action, unknown set fire to the office of the “Committee against Torture” in Grozny.
Re defenders office was raided crowd in June 2015. CHGTRK “Terrible” then called the incident “a picket-governmental organizations and civil society representatives of the republic”, who “expressed outrage defenders ignoring the fact of murder of Chechen businessman Dadaeva”. Kadyrov said that human rights defenders “deliberately provoked the incident, with the goal once again become famous in the world press, become owners of new US Grant».
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