Mother voiced details of the fight for the truth about the fate of Said Murtazaliev

The mother of a schoolboy from Dagestan, who was forced to sign a contract to be sent to a combat zone, received unofficial information about her son's death.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, security forces in the Moscow region forced 18-year-old Said Murtazaliev to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense by torture. In the combat zone, commanders forced him to collect money, after which the young man was declared missing.

.The family of 18-year-old Said Murtazaliev has not received any new news about him since March, his mother Leyla Nakhshunova said. "I was unofficially told that he was killed and told to come in September to get a certificate that he was declared dead," she told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Leyla Nakhshunova receives almost no information about the developments in the case opened on the fact of extortion and murder. "I contacted the Investigative Committee, the prosecutor's office, but there were no answers. The only thing I know is that initially there were 13 defendants. Then five managed (to avoid charges), of the remaining six are in custody, and two unit commanders remain in the combat zone. I am planning to go to Moscow in September to clarify the situation with the investigation. Maybe I will involve a lawyer who promised to help, but for now I did everything myself," the woman said.

Nakhshunova emphasized that a criminal case on the torture of her son was not opened due to the lack of a medical examination. "He was taken into the army within a week. The investigator only called me and said that he was detained. We sent our lawyer, but when he arrived, they told him that Said had signed a contract. Since his phone and SIM cards were taken away, he was able to tell how he was tortured only after he was in the SVO," the interlocutor said.

Forcible recruitment of participants in the military operation has been going on for several years, said Sergei Krivenko, director of the human rights group "Citizen. Army. Law."*. "There are quite a lot of such cases. Since 2022, cases of recruitment of those who can be pressured have been recorded, including prisoners and defendants," he told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Police officers in different regions of Russia receive bonuses for each person recruited to the front, the size of the bonuses reaches 100 thousand rubles per person, the publication "Verstka"* reported on July 10. In the publication, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, including from Krasnodar and Rostov-on-Don, anonymously spoke about the practice of such bonuses. Before the first interrogation, police officers are required to explain to all detainees aged 18 to 65 that they can avoid prosecution by signing a military contract, and if the person actually signs it, the employees are paid additional money.

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