ROSTOV-ON-DON — Police says a senior judge in Russia's restive North Caucasus has been gunned down in the province of Dagestan in a suspected retaliation for his recent rulings.
Vyacheslav Gasanov, spokesman for the Interior Ministry in Dagestan, said Wednesday that Magomed Magomedov was killed by an unknown man in the center of provincial capital Makhachkala on Tuesday night.
The 55-year-old judge at the local Supreme Court worked on high-profile cases involving terrorists and Islamic insurgents. Local police suspect that Magomedov may have been killed in retaliation for the convictions he has recently handed down.
Dagestan is the epicenter of an Islamic insurgency that has spread across Russia’s Caucasus region after two separatist wars in neighboring Chechnya.
