MIA of Dagestan promises to check local resident's complaint against militiamen's actions

Khaibula Khaibulaev, a resident of Karat village, Akhvakh District of Dagestan, has received a letter from the department of own safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia saying that the fact of his beating on August 16, 2009, was not properly investigated by Labazan Derbishev, head of the investigation search of the Botlikh District; therefore, "an additional check was entrusted to the department of own safety of the MIA of Dagestan.

The incident burst out on August 16, 2009, with a scandal between Derbishev and Khaibulaev in Rakhat village, Botlikh District, where Khaibulaev's father-in-law, Abdulbadyr Abdulzhaparov, 63, a father of ten children, lives. Then, Derbishev took Khaibulaev to the militia station and put him into a solitary cell. According to Khaibulaev, the militiaman beat him. At night the detainee felt bad, and a doctor was called to him.

In the morning, Khaibulaev was brought to the magistrate judge, where he was fined by 1000 roubles for disobedience to law enforcer. On that very day Khaibulaev addressed the Botlikh inter-district investigatory division at the prosecutor's office of Dagestan with his complaint against Derbishev's illegal actions. The case was run by inspector Shamil Dzhabrailov. Subsequently Khaibulaev took his treatment for a month against posttraumatic body and kidney bruise at the Central District Hospital (CDH) of the Akhvakh District.

When his health became better, he went to Botlikh with the aim to protest against the ruling of the magistrate judges and to find out how process moved ahead. Khaibulaev learnt that Nabiev had no right to fine him, as another magistrate judge - from the Gumbet District - was to act as the magistrate judge of the Botlikh District. Khaibulaev addressed the magistrate court, where they presented a paper to him allegedly with his signature, saying that the victim had no claims to anybody. Then, Khaibulaev filed a new application to respective instances.

In the end of September Dzhabrailov informed Khaibulaev that Derbishev had also addressed the investigatory committee with a demand to initiate a criminal case already against Khaibulaev himself. "No Derbishev's application ever existed," Mr Khaibulaev believes. "Dzhabrailov was consistently ruining the case."

On October 6, he received a statement of the Botlikh Inter-District Investigatory Division at the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan about refusal to initiate a criminal case on the fact of his beating by Derbishev.

On December 23, Khaibulaev sent a letter to General Public Prosecutor of Russia Yuri Chaika asking to bring Derbishev to criminal liability.

He has also noted that after he addressed his complaint to the Interior Minister of Dagestan, threats appeared. "Militiamen demand that I give up my application, promising instead not to set afloat the fact of allegedly detected ammunition. But I have nothing to do with the ammunition planted under the fence of my father-in-law's household; and I'm not going to bargain on that with anybody," said Mr Khaibulaev.

According to his story, earlier Derbishev had already been dismissed from the militia for beating an illegally detained person, but later he was restored at work.

Khaibulaev's lawyer asserts that in his fight for the truth he is going to reach the Strasbourg Court European Court on Human Rights).

This February, Khaibulaev sent a letter to the President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev asking to affect local judges who, as he said, refuse to set the case of his beating to motion.

He has also told about his numerous fruitless addresses to the Prosecutor's Offices of the Botlikh District and Dagestan.