Relatives of 25-year-old Chechen refugee Hussein Yusupov, who disappeared five
months ago in Tbilisi after being detained by Georgian law enforcement, gathered
on January 23 outside the US Embassy in Tbilisi to seek US ambassador Richard
Miles' assistance in his search.
Aiban Yusupova, mother of the missing Chechen, told reporters that her son was
detained on September 20, 2002 at a police check-point in Akhmet region
in Georgia for lack of required documents for carrying a personal computer.
After that Yusupov was delivered to the anti-terrorist department of Georgia's
state security ministry. Though the ministry's officials assured his mother he
was released five days later, he failed to have returned home.
According to his mother, all her numerous applications to law enforcement bodies
were in vain, no probes into his disappearance have been launched. "There is a
lot of different theories, but all of them are just rumors. For example, they
say that my boy was for some reason handed over to Russia or even the United States,"
said AibanYusupova. "I want to believe that Hussein is alive, and cherish hope
that the US intervention will help the search."
[24.01.2003 21:39] The Chechen Times
http://www.chechnya.nl/news.php?id=1556&lang=eng
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