Russia: Lawyer threatened in North Caucasus: Rustam Matsev

Index Number: EUR 46/021/2012
Date Published: 6 June 2012
Categories: Russian Federation

On 31 May, Rustam Matsev, a lawyer working in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria in the Russian North Caucasus, received a death threat from a senior police official. The police officer also demanded that Rustam Matsev’s client withdraw his complaint about abduction and ill-treatment by law enforcement.