Salman Tepsurkayev

Affiliated media: Telegram channel 1ADAT, Administrator, Chat moderator

Incident date: September 5, 2020

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Location: Russia, Chechen Republic, Grozny

Additional information:

Salman Tepsurkayev was kidnapped on September 5 while outside Chechnya and by the following day was being held at the base of the Terek special-operations unit in the Chechen capital, Grozny. On September 7, a social-media video appeared in which a naked person - who identifies himself as Tepsurkayev and says he was an administrator with the opposition 1ADAT Telegram channel -stands on his knees and says, "I am punishing myself." He then apologizes and sits down on a glass bottle.