MOSCOW, March 16. /TASS/. A member of the Russian presidential council for development of civil society and human rights, chairman of the Torture Prevention Committee, Igor Kalyapin was assaulted in Grozny on Wednesday.
"[Unknown people] attacked, beat," Kalyapin told TASS, adding that the case may be linked with the attack at the mini-bus with human rights activists and journalists on the administrative border between Ingushetia and Chechnya, the republics in Russia’s North Caucasus, occurred on March 9.
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