Leonid Utkin

Affiliated media: Committee for the Prevention of Torture, Cameraman

Incident date: May 7, 2019

Attack type:

• Abduction, taking captive / hostage, illegal deprivation of liberty

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Caucasian Knot

Location: Russia, Republic of Ingushetia, Nazran

Additional information:

Yevgeny Chilikov and Magomed Alamov, lawyers for the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, as well as cameraman Leonid Utkin, were detained by unknown armed men near the headquarters of the Centre for Combatting Extremism in Nazran, where they were shooting a film about torture in the North Caucasus, doing nothing illegal. "In broad daylight, armed men approached them, roughly detained them, drove them to a nearby car and locked them in it”, the Committee said in a statement.