Special Operation Team of State Security Treats Chechens Cruelly
On Agust 4, 2004 we received information from the Georgian Centre for Psychological and Medical Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (GCRT) that the special operation team of the Georgian state security conducted an operation against Chechen refugees in Pankisi, namely in the villages Duisi, Djokola and Khalatsani.
During the special operation the special operation team of the state security treated Chechen women in particularly cruel manner. They severely beat 14 Chechen women; 12 of them were taken to Akhmeta Hospital on the very day and 4 of them turned out to have concussion of the brain. It should be noted that one of the women was pregnant.
According to received information the special operation policemen made the women to fall on their knees and then beat them with the butt of the gun (Kalashnikov).
Besides the special operation team detained about 20 Chechens most of which were released later, but four of them Hasan Okiev, Iakhshir Salami, Vakhtang Margoshvili and Aleksandre Burchashvili are suspected in selling drugs.