The life of A. Zakayev's bodyguard is under threat

According to reliable informations from the Chechen Republic, A. Zakayev's former bodyguard Vaha Dashuyev has been transported to  Grozny. He is kept in one of the investigation isolation centres in Grozny under constant severe torture and humiliations.

According to the available information, Dashuyev is subjected to  torture by electric current. He is beaten with bludgeons and forced to sign empty sheets of paper and to voice ready-written texts in front of a video camera, which "prove" A. Zakayev's participation in committed crimes.

In the opinion of Vaha Dashuyev's relatives, which is shared by many Chechen human rights activists, his life is in serious danger, since  the physical measures used against him in order to beat useful evidence out of him, finally could lead to the death of the arrested, as it already happened in similar cases.

Information center SNO, 2003-01 -11

http://www.chechenpress.com/news/01_2003/15_11_01.shtml

[Translation by the Yahoo-Chechnya mailing list moderator Norbert Strade]