US EditionRussian Entrepreneur Kidnapped, Beaten and Released After Bashing Chechens Online
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The investigating committee opened a criminal investigation into the abduction of blogger Areg Šepikhin from the Jaroslavski station in Moscow.
Russian Entrepreneur Kidnapped, Beaten and Released After Bashing Chechens Online
39-year-old tech entrepreneur Areg Shchepikhin, who posted critical comments about ethnic Chechens and Islam on social media, was abducted in broad daylight from a central Moscow railway station on Tuesday.
Man who posted anti-Chechen videos abducted in Moscow by men in official-looking car
On Tuesday evening, a man was abducted at a Moscow train station by a group using a black Mercedes outfitted with a siren and official-style plates. The abductee was later identified as businessman Areg Shchepikhin, who had posted videos making derogatory remarks about Chechens and Islam. Police stopped the car about an hour and a half later, but Shchepikhin was no longer inside. The suspects reportedly claimed they were members of Russia’s Nati…
With regard to the abduction by Chechen security forces of businessman Areg Šepikhin, a criminal case was opened concerning the incitement of hatred or hostility (art. 282, para. 2 (a), of the Criminal Code) and public calls for extremism (art. 280, para. 2). This is reported by the Russian Investigation Committee. After the abduction of a man at the Jaroslavsk railway station in Moscow had generated publicity, the Minister for National Policy, …
Shchepikhin describes himself as a "businessman, hero of Russia and top manager". He has also recently spoken out on social media about Chechens and Islam, according to his mother, because of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh. "F*ck your Allah, your Koran and everything that is sacred to you," he said in one of his last Instagram posts this week. This was noticed by Chechen bloggers who demanded Shchepikhin's "finding and punishment". The kidnappers m…
The 39-year-old entrepreneur, Areg Šepikhin, who had been captured and taken away from the Jaroslavski station in Moscow the previous day, had not been abducted but had been detained, as announced by the Minister for National Policy, External Relations, Press and Information, Chechnya Ahmed Dudaev.
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