Watch the video and try to come to the same conclusions that the Investigative Committee made. The recording captured the moment of the use of physical force during the arrest of Ruslan Minasov.
The police of the Russian Department of Internal Affairs in the Yakimanka district reported that they did not hit Minasov on the head and back at all – this, as they say, is different. They are echoed by the investigator, who saw (or wanted to see) here only the legal use of physical force.
After what happened in the video, and this story is already almost 2 years old, Minasov was kept in an ambulance for several hours with handcuffs fastened behind his back, and then in the hospital. Later, an examination did not confirm a spinal fracture and hemorrhage in the eyeballs.
So, what was the need for this particular type of detention? What is the legitimate purpose of these actions?
The Meshchansky MRSO investigator did not want to give answers to these and other questions. And the Tagansky District Court “overpowered” the conclusions of the Investigative Committee on the legality in the usual duty mode. There was still hope for an administrative lawsuit to declare the use of physical force and special means illegal.
And in the spring of 2022, the Babushkinsky District Court sided with Minasov and declared the use of handcuffs in the doctors’ car illegal. But already in February 2023, the Moscow City Court overturned this decision and rejected the claim of the Team Against Torture lawyers.
It turns out that the victim exhausted almost all available legal means.
The Anti-Torture Team filed a complaint with the ECHR because the incident occurred before September 16, 2022. Even if compensation is awarded to Minasov, it will not be paid, since Russia has withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the European Court.
Think about it, if such an obvious case was left without an adequate response from the law enforcement system, then how can we protect ourselves in less obvious situations?
By the way, watching the full video became possible only thanks to the work of human rights activists – during the year of work, the investigator did not bother to find its source (the taxi driver), which was done by the CPT lawyers themselves in the first days of work.
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