For fear of being captured residents of Chechnya abandoned to take medical
aid
On 22 January 2003, on his way to Grozny, Alikhan Musayevich Yusupov, aged 25,
was detained by the Russian servicemen on the check-point at the exit of Urus-Martan.
Two days later, having been brutally beaten and tortured, Yusupov was found
in the outskirts of Urus-Martan. People who found him helped him to get home,
as he could not walk independently because of the injuries.
As it became known to the correspondent of the information center of Russian-Chechen
Friendship Society, in spite of the serious injuries Yusupov's relatives do not
want to take him to hospital, as there were cases of illegal capturing the patients
right in the hospital.
The Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship, Press Release # 349, 25.01.03.
http://www.chechenpress.info/english/news/01_2003/30/4.htm
Violent disappearance in Grozny
On January 24, 2003, a resident of Grozny Marina Gamarigova applied to the regional
office of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society with a request to help her in
search of Ramzan Betiyevich Gamarigov, b. in 1967, living at 4, Lomonosov St.
in Grozny.
On 29 December 2002, at about 5:30 p.m., Ramzan Gamarigov went out of is home
and has not returned. For the last time he was seen on the territory of the forestry
in the village Voikovo. The relatives of the missing man suppose he might be detained
by the Russian servicemen. They applied to all instances, but in vain- nothing
has been found out about the further fate of Ramzan Gamarigov.
The Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship, Press Release # 349, 25.01.03.