"Memorial" sent an appeal to the UN in connection with the persecution of Muslims in Dagestan through "professional accounting"

Lawyers of the Memorial center turned to the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Russia, Mariana Katsarova. They asked to intervene in the situation with the persecution of people who in Dagestan were put on “profutsa” as “religious extremists.”

The lists of those put on “professional notice” by the police include Muslims who allegedly profess “non-traditional movements of Islam.” But often random people also end up there, for example, women who wear a niqab.

Lawyer Violetta Fitzner sent the UN special rapporteur information about five residents of Dagestan. The men were subjected to various “preventative measures”: checks at regional borders, interviews, house searches, DNA and fingerprint samples, and so on. Among them are Vazir Bazanaev, Ramazan Nazhduev, Makhach Bammatkhanov, Khusein Khamzatov, Daniyal Alkhasov.

At the end of last year, the Fifth Cassation Court in Pyatigorsk did not satisfy the claim of 38-year-old ex-FSB officer Ramazan Nazhduev from Dagestan. He demanded that the Ministry of Internal Affairs exclude him from the professional register under the “extremist” category. Thus, the cassation court agreed with the conclusions of the lower ones. The decisions were motivated by the fact that the defendant, represented by the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Dagestan, denied conducting professional accounting of citizens in the region under the “extremist” category. Ramazan Nazhduev himself noted that he served 15 years and his attitude towards this state changed dramatically.

Ramazan Nazhduev believes that he was placed on professional registration because of a conflict with an employee of the Center for Combating Extremism (CPE). After the incident, the police began calling him and demanding that he appear before them to give an explanation about his visit to the mosque in Makhachkala. Subsequently, at the traffic police post, Nazhduev was informed that he had been registered.

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