INFORMATION CENTER OF THE
SOCIETY OF RUSSIAN-CHECHEN FRIENDSHIP
Press release No. 340, January 11, 2003
Real state of things in the refugee camps of Ingushetia.
People are detained in Chechnya even on New Year holidays.
A detention "for statistics".
SRCF members' interference helped to set free illegally detained migrants.
Report from Ingushetia
Real state of things in the refugee camps of Ingushetia
On January 10, 2003 in Moscow the president of the International Helsinki Federation
Ludmila Alekseeva and the chairman of the Committee for Human Rights at the Russian
president's administration Ella Panfilova met with the federal Minister for the
reconstruction of economical and social spheres in the Chechen Republic Stanislav
Ilyasov to discuss the results of work of the Committee formed to check the facts
of numerous violations of human rights and freedoms of migrants from the temporary
refugee camps on the territory of Ingushetia. The Committee worked in Ingushetia
and Chechnya on December 27-28, 2002. They focused on the problem of illegal exclusion
of migrants from the registration lists of Migration Service as on one of the
most important ones. Ilyasov declared that all infringements and defects were
elicited and worked over.
However, the situation with the forced migrants from Chechnya does not seem to
be as optimistic as the Minister described it. On December 11, 2003 the head of
the regional department of the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship Imran Ezhiev
met with the migrants who live on the territory of the destroyed camp "Iman" (Malgobek
district of Ingushetia) and in the nearby private houses, in particular, with
the public commandant Ruslan Paisulaev and his two assistants - Marat Shovkhalova
and Khalista Dakaeva. The inspection conducted by the SRCF activists showed that
from 588 of the checked migrants only 130 were registered in the Migration Service
lists.
If an agreement between the collective farm, in the buildings of which most migrants
live, and Migration Service is not signed, there will be a threat of disconnection
of the farm's work shop form the gas pipe and electric line. At present, having
shown deep humanism and mercy, the head of the farm Turshiev attached the building
to gas ad electricity sources despite of the danger of being fined. Until the
information about the migrants who live in the farm is included into Migration
Service lists, to sign this agreement is impossible. To add to this, those who
had been illegally excluded from the Migration Service lists, had got no humanitarian
help and products
for already 10 months.
After long resist administration allowed the migrants to put 2 prefabricated houses
brought by UNO members on the territory of the former camp (for more details see
press release 332). However, they demand to build other 18 houses in the yards
of private households. The migrants are categorically against it because they
will have to pay the rent and for other services every month. At that it is not
guaranteed that the landholders will not ask the forced migrants to go away.
(From our correspondent.).
Report from the Chechen Republic
People are detained in Chechnya even on New Year holidays
During the first days of new year Batalov Rasambek Lemaevich (1966) who lives
in the village Gekhi of Urus-Martan district, went to Grozny in his own car. However,
his relatives in the capital of the Chechen Republic didn't meet with him. The
search of the relatives, local administration and militiamen led to no results.
Only on January 7, 2003 it became known that Rasambek had been detained
and taken to Kabardino-Balkaria by Russian servicemen and that at present he is
kept
in the town Nalchik. Relatives try to find out the reasons of Batalov's detention.
(From our correspondent.).
A detention "for statistics"
At the beginning of January at the block post between the settlements Urus-Martan
and Gekhi federals detained Yusupov Ramsan Umarovich (1972). The cause of
his detention was the coincidence of his name and surname with the name and surname
of a person searched by Criminal Investigation Department. Although his
date of birth and patronymic name were different, soldiers did not take it into
consideration. In 24 hours Ramsan (who had been subject to cruel beating) was
thrown from the car near the cemetery gates.
Most possible, Yusupov was illegally detained "for statistics" because new appointments
and rewards depend on the number of arrests.
(From our correspondent.).
SRCF members' interference helped to set free illegally detaine emigrants
On January 9, 2003 Dzhabrailov family (migrants who live in private houses of
the village Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Sunzhensky district) appealed to the SRCF
office with a cry for help. The head of the regional department of the SRCF Imran
Ezhiev and his executive Minkail Ezhiev immediately went to the village and found
out that illegally detained Dzhabrailov Anzor, his relative Daudov Shamkhan
and their two friends are kept in the police station of the village Sunzhen.
SRCF members met with the police station administration to get information about
the reasons of their arrest. Policemen set free all the detained and returned
the car. They declared that in the course of the held investigation it had been
established that the arrested had no connections with the crime committed
in the district.
(From our correspondent.).
Editor in chief Stanislav Dmitriyevsky.
Editor of this edition Oksana Bazhina.
This edition has been put out with the support of The National Endowment
for Democracy, as part of their "Russian-Chechen Information Partnership".