A member of the Kremlin’s human rights council says there are reasons to believe the prime suspect in the killing of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov confessed under torture.
Andrei Babushkin told reporters Wednesday that he had seen “numerous wounds” on the body of Zaur Dadayev during a visit to the suspect’s prison cell on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, a Moscow newspaper says Dadayev has reversed his confession to the killing, telling the Moskovsky Komsomolets that he told authorities he had not killed Nemtsov and planned to plead innocent when he was brought before a judge. But he said once he was brought to …read more
Source: Voice of America
