On February 12, the mutilated body of 31-year-old Chechen refugee Visita Shakarov
was brought into the Satsita tent camp near the village of Sleptsovskaya in Ingushetia.
In January of this year Shakarov was detained near the Sunzhen regional police
department in Ingushetia.
Shakarov used to live in the Satsita camp for displaced Chechens. On January 6,
a group of law enforcement officers from Chechnya and Ingushetia came to the camp.
They burst into one of the tents and detained four inhabitants, including Shakarov's
brother and father. When Chechen refugees came to their defense the officers opened
a gunfire, shoved the detained into UAZ-469 vehicles and fled away. Angry refugees
rushed to the Sunzhen police station. Police officials confirmed the arrested
were still inside the police building but would be soon handed over to the Nadterechny
regional police department in Chechnya. Spotting Shakarov in the crowd of outraged
refugees, a man in plain clothes summoned him inside, and the gates closed behind
him.
In a few days three of the detained were released, and Visita Shakarov and his
brother were transferred to Nadterechny region in Chechnya. In late January police
told Visita's family that he had died in a car accident on the way to Mozdok but
refused to hand over his body. It was found recently that his body was kept in
a morgue in Mozdok (Ossetia). When his relatives received his body they saw marks
of torture on it: his heart was removed, stomach ripped up, and a sole and part
of the skull cut off.