Nemtsov murder: Zaur Dadayev confession 'forced'
Source: BBC
Zaur Dadayev, one of two suspects charged with the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, confessed under duress, a member of Russia's Human Rights Council says.
Andrei Babushkin, who visited Mr Dadayev on Tuesday, says he saw "numerous wounds" on his body, suggesting he had been tortured.
The suspect said he only confessed so a friend arrested with him would be freed, Mr Babushkin said.
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He said he planned to tell a court hearing on Sunday why he had confessed but was never given a chance to speak.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31829723
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,198 posts)That said, I'm convinced Nemtsov was definitely murder at the steps of the Kremlin by some random Chechen for no apparent reason. Definitely.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)hope he still has all his appendages and sanity......
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Putin doesn't want any lose ends.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)Todashev Family to Sue FBI Over Sons Death
The family of Ibragim Todashev, the 27-year-old friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev who was shot and killed by FBI agents in his Orlando apartment in May 2013, is suing the FBI for $30 million, The Boston Globe reports.
With the help of the Florida chapter of The Council on American-Islamic Relations, Todashevs father, Abdulbaki Todashev, filed a notice of claim on Monday, a step in the process toward a civil lawsuit. The lawsuit itself will likely be filed in the spring, according to MSNBC.
Todashevs father says the FBI harassed his son before the fatal shooting and negligently hired Aaron McFarlane, the agent who fired the shots. During his four years with the Oakland Police Department, McFarlane was involved in several lawsuits, including two police brutality suits, according to the Globe. Todashevs father says the FBI should not have hired him.
In reports released last March, the Florida state attorney and the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice ruled that McFarlane acted in self-defense and cleared him of wrongdoing in Todashevs death. Todashevs family has contested the reports.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2015/03/02/todashev-family-sue-fbi-over-son-death/Ih5Pe0ZNcvnNv1j1CBCheL/story.html
That is all.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)Putin would actually torture someone into confessing.
I guess to save time I have to put this disclaimer here or I will all of sudden have a bunch of Pro-Putin friends sending me messages...Yes, the above comment before the laughing was 100%
zeemike
(18,998 posts)But then I woke up and realized we set a president and now we have no reason at all to condemn others for doing that.
I wonder if they used watter boarding or just the standard torture we used in Abu Grabe and Afghanistan?
uhnope
(6,419 posts)I'm sure the Kremlin come up with better talking point than that.
btw it's "precedent."
zeemike
(18,998 posts)That if we do it it is OK but if they do it it is a crime?...is that logic or just plain hypocrisy?
uhnope
(6,419 posts)Abu Ghraib was a huge disaster & war crime; to compare it to Russia's everyday use of torture in its justice system, never mind in creating forced confessions for the biggest political assassination in Russia (at least in the last couple months....) is bullshit.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)They are not the same thing.
And so you say that when we torture it is not as bad as when Russia does it...if they did that is, and we don't know that and neither do you...but we DO know that we did it but you can brush that off as a mistake.
But I am open to it, show us your proof that Russia does it every day...proof now not some more propaganda by those who want to re ignite the cold and maybe hot war.
And show us that we have quit doing it...we still have Gitmo still doing it's thing and evidence of enhanced interrogation in Chicago...so the case can be made that we torture every day too.
And that makes us hypocrits...well not me because I see it as wrong no matter who does it...and for any reason.
uhnope
(6,419 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017247590
BTW the whole "hypocrisy" whine is so weak. Anybody can point to anything in history or the world and scream "hypocrisy." Gitmo sucks and that doesn't lesson the fact that Russia tortures out confession to cover up the assassinations of Putin's rivals--a fact that doesn't seem to bother you.
elias49
(4,259 posts)Just trying to help. like you.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)And we know that the cops shoot down unarmed men in the streets every day...do the Russian cops do that and if they do does it make us better than them?
What bothers me is this constant demonetization of the "evil empire" while doing evil things ourselves...done to hide our own guilt...and apparently to start up a new cold war to feed the beast of the MIC.
Yep that bothers me a lot.
uhnope
(6,419 posts)if people saying bad things about Putin bothers you so much go start a thread on Gitmo.
But it's still BS, to read news of Russia and get mad at the USA...it's kind of deranged.
The "constant demonization" of Russia is also known as the headlines every day. No one even needs to demonize Russia, Putin is doing a fine job by himself.
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)secretly LOVE George W. Bush for giving you those few years of torture, black sites, rendition, etc., to use to equate America with all the despotic nasty regimes on planet Earth...You guys will be able to use that gift for, what, decades to come, huh?
Have at it.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)But I have never alerted on anyone and I would never alert on this...I just brush it off as yet another attempt to intimidate people into not facing reallity...and it is a feeble one at that.
uhnope
(6,419 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)That would be him, or you if you want to take up his charg.
uhnope
(6,419 posts)you constantly run interference on threads that point out the horror show that Putin is enacting
zeemike
(18,998 posts)And call bullshit when I see it...and if you see that as interference then it is because I think it is bullshit.
And it is bullshit when you make charges of a horror show that you have never seen for yourself but rely on propaganda as your proof. I am not one to be easily led by emotional blackmail and you should know that by now.
And if it smells like bullshit it probably is.
uhnope
(6,419 posts)to Russia can I know anything about what is going on there. Hmmm.
So these are all BS: The anti-gay laws, the assassinations, the "Nashi" Putin Youth organization, the stomping out of democracy, the mafia/crony/police complex that forces honest businessman to either sell their business or go to prison...It's a long list.
& your response is...
zeemike
(18,998 posts)Physician heal yourself.
And once you have heal this country of it's evils and injustices then you can work on Russia.
But really I would start with the Saudis who do all of those things and lots more...where women are virtually property of men and they behead gay people if they catch them.
But we can't do that can we?...because we don't want war with them we want war with Russia.
There is lots more money to be made if we can install a puppet government in Russia...like we did in Afghanistan, Iraq and many south American countries.
We play a dangerous game and it will not work out as well as you think.
blm
(113,091 posts)Not at all.
villager
(26,001 posts)...and declare everything all wrapped up without a trial!