Dmitry Peskov
Law enforcement authorities have denied the information of “Novaya Gazeta” about the alleged mass executions in Chechnya. This was stated press Secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov, reports TASS on Monday, July 10.
“We took them (the data given in the publication — approx. “Of the tape.ru”) information, as well as the refutation of the information which has been made by the organs of internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic”, — said the representative of the Kremlin. He also stressed that the newspaper cites unnamed sources.
In the article published in “Novaya Gazeta” on 9 July, sets out information about the checks on the fact of the January executions and the persecution of homosexuals in the country. For the first time a publication reported on them in early April. The newspaper writes that he gave the investigators a list of twenty names of Chechens, allegedly detained since late December and killed in January.
Law enforcement and the Republic’s leadership has consistently denied all knowledge contained in the media. The Kremlin said that the reason to doubt these data they have.
The Commissioner for human rights in Russia Tatyana Moskalkova said that he had received negative responses to queries about the persecution of gays in Chechnya from law enforcement. Despite this, she promised to send employees of their unit in the North Caucasus, and also did not rule out that he will visit him myself.