Eighth suspect in Moscow attack appears in court, rights commissioner warns on torture

Alisher Kasimov, a suspect in the Crocus City Hall attack charged with providing accommodation to the four men accused of carrying out shooting in the concert hall, sits behind a glass wall of an enclosure for defendants in a courtroom in Moscow, Russia, March 26, 2024. Moscow City Court's Press Office/Handout via REUTERS

MOSCOW/DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Russia remanded in custody on Tuesday a Kyrgyzstan-born man suspected of involvement in Friday's mass shooting at a Moscow concert hall, and sent investigators to Tajikistan to question the families of four men charged with carrying out the attack.

Eight suspects have now been remanded in pre-trial detention since gunmen sprayed concertgoers with bullets in the deadliest attack in Russia in two decades, days after President Vladimir Putin celebrated an election that handed him a fifth term.