Russian soldiers detained innocent Chechen patient in Argun hospitalRuslan Isayev, North Caucasus – Russian soldiers detained an innocent resident of Chechen village Belgatoy right in the municipal hospital in Argun.
The detention followed after a group of Chechen fighters fired at a Russian checkpoint in the night from February 25 to February 26. As a result of the shoot-out, a night guard of a nearby car repair shop was seriously injured and taken to the municipal hospital in Argun by his son. The victim died the same night, though.
In the morning his relatives drove his body home. Some ten minutes later Russian armoured personnel carriers surrounded the surgery department of the hospital and started searching for a Chechen fighter who was allegedly injured that night. As they failed to find a patient with a bullet wound, they detained a resident of Belgatoy, who had been hospitalised for renal colic.
The staff of the surgery department followed the APCs to the military headquarters and launched a protest rally, demanding the release of their patient. In the evening the detained person was released. Eyewitnesses said that he was cruelly beaten. This is not the first case of Russian soldiers bursting in the Argun hospital and detaining civilian patients.
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