Lawyers of the “Team Against Torture” filed a statement with the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee and the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow regarding illegal actions of police officers. They insulted Tamerlan Marzoev, a native of North Ossetia living in Moscow, because of his nationality, beat him in front of his pregnant wife and forced him to do squats naked.

On October 14, Tamerlan and his wife Aryuna were returning from friends when a police car blocked their way. The employees demanded to see documents. “They started asking me where I was from. I replied that I had been living in Moscow since the seventh grade and that I was a native of North Ossetia. At that moment, the employee said: “Why did you come here in droves?” Marzoev said. Because of the conversation about nationality, as the man recalls, his wife got angry and started arguing with the police. Tamerlan told the employees that the woman was pregnant and asked them to stop swearing. Almost immediately, a police officer hit him in the jaw several times. He fell on the asphalt and hit his head.

The young people were taken to the police station in the Timiryazevsky district, where, according to Marzoev, he continued to be insulted on ethnic grounds, and then taken to his office. “The operative started asking me what I was using, and then told me to strip naked and sit down three times. I complied with his demand,” the man shared.

The police took Marzoev to a medical facility, where he was x-rayed and sent to City Clinical Hospital No. 1. At the hospital, doctors diagnosed him with a bilateral jaw fracture and numerous bruises on his head and left him in the hospital. A few days later, Tamerlan underwent surgery, after which he still has not recovered and cannot go to work.