Chechen detained after terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall dies in police custody in Russia

A native of Chechnya, Askhab Uspanov, who was detained in Moscow after the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, died a few hours after being detained at the police station. This was reported by his mother Taisa Uspanov, according to the Agency.Novosti publication, UNN reports.

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It is noted that the Chechen opposition movement 1ADAT, which was the first to report Uspanov's death, citing its sources, specified that he had been tortured to death.

According to Uspanov's mother, before his detention, he was on his way to his wife's work, and after his detention, he called his wife and informed her about it. She wanted to follow him, but he asked her not to.

They have nothing on me

Later, according to his mother, he called back and asked her to come to the police station to pick him up. Uspanov clarified that he had been rude to the security forces.

Uspanov's wife arrived at the police station two hours later. The security forces told her that her husband was gone.

Why not, I recently spoke to him on the phone

Then the police officer answered her: "You were talking, but now you won't" (the dialog is recounted by the mother).

The man was buried in Chechnya, Uspanov's mother said. According to the woman, her son could not have been involved in the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall.

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Earlier, the Chechen opposition movement 1ADAT reported that, according to its information, the night after the attack in Crocus, the capital's security forces detained and interrogated Uspanov to death. According to the publication, he was returning home after work and was waiting for a bus at a bus stop. There, he was attacked by masked men, and he resisted because he did not understand who they were. Only later it turned out that they were Moscow law enforcement officers and they detained Uspanov on suspicion of complicity in the terrorist attack. During the interrogation, Russian security forces tortured him, broke his ribs and spine, and left him with strangulation marks and widespread bruises on his body.

In the video published by 1ADAT, the man says that the security forces staged Uspanov's suicide in an attempt to "hide their crime." The victim's mother told the Agency that her son could not have done anything to himself because he was a Muslim.

The "Agency" was unable to find out from his mother at which particular stop Uspanov was detained and in which police station he died. The mother said she did not know because she was in Rostov at the time.

Uspanov was registered as an individual entrepreneur in the construction industry. According to his mother, he had his own brigade. According to the SPARK-Interfax system, the individual entrepreneur was liquidated in connection with Uspanov's death on March 22.

Context

Security forces detained the participants in the attack a few hours after the attack, after which each was tortured. One of the detainees had part of his ear cut off, another was tortured with electric shocks, and the third was brought to court on a hospital gurney, probably in a semi-conscious state. Another detainee was brought to court with a plastic bag around his neck, which was apparently used as a gag. The men's bodies and faces bore signs of beatings.

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