INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
year was beaten to death by police, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported Wednesday, citing an independent forensic analysis conducted at
the request of his family.Rifat Dautov was among more than 80 people arrested across Bashkortostan in the aftermath of protests in support
of jailed Bashkir activist Fayil Alsynov in January
courthouse in the town of Baymak on Jan
protests and was visiting a doctor in the Bashkortostan capital of Ufa on the day of the Baymak rally.The human rights group Za Prava
Cheloveka (ZPC) first reported on Jan
being transported to a police station in Baymak
Bruises covered at least 30% of his body, and he was believed to have lost large amounts of blood as a result of internal bleeding from
injuries."The entire autopsy picture has excessive signs of death from huge internal blood loss," Idel.Realii cited the forensics expert as
conducting a new investigation into his death.
