НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН И (ИЛИ) НАПРАВЛЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ «КОМАНДА ПРОТИВ ПЫТОК» ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА «КОМАНДА ПРОТИВ ПЫТОК» | 18+
In 2019, the local policemen tied a resident of the Cherny Otrog (the Saraktashsky district of the Orenburg region), Valiko Baygulov, to a chair with a belt and tortured him with a stun gun, forcing him to confess to stealing five thousand rubles. Valiko’s brother was similarly tortured. Subsequently, the perpetrators — officers Sergey Pavlov and Rinat Arslambayev — were sentenced to real terms of imprisonment.
In January 2023, the Saraktashsky District Court estimated the non-pecuniary damage inflicted to Valiko Baygulov at 300 thousand rubles. Valiko and the lawyers from the Crew Against Torture disagreed with the ruling and challenged the low amount of compensation. The Ministry of Internal Affairs equally appealed against the court’s decision, as the authorities considered the compensation overestimated and unreasonable.
The Orenburg Regional Court adopted the arguments of Mr. Baygulov and increased the amount of compensation to 500 000 rubles. The Regional Court agreed with the plaintiff that the lower court had not given any assessment to the psychologist’s conclusion: the psychologist found that Mr. Baygulov, even after several years, has a negative psycho-emotional state.
«No doubt, the given amount isn’t close to the sums of compensation awarded by the European Court, but, nevertheless, we are satisfied with the ruling. 500 thousand rubles is three times higher than the average amount of compensation for legal cases of that category in Russia.»
In August 2019, Valiko Baygulov and his brother Roman Chikviladze were arrested by the police under suspicion of stealing five thousand rubles. The police officers brought them to the building of the Chernootrozhsky Rural Council, where they tied them up to a chair and tortured them with electricity.
In June 2021, the police officers Sergey Pavlov and Rinat Arslambayev were sentenced to real jail time in a general regime penal colony. Later on, the court lightened the punishment of Arslambayev, having replaced the remaining jail time with a supervised release. At the same time, the court has already rejected Pavlov’s several demands to be released on parole.