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http://www.newsru.com/russia/29may2005/chech2.html (translation by M.L.) A day in Chechnya: three have disapperead without a trace, two surrendered, four have gone to join the fighters Three people disappeared in Chechnya without a trace in the last twenty-four hours. This was reported to Interfax over the telephone by a source in the law-enforcement agencies of the republic. In particular, in the settlement of Podgornyi of the Staropromyslovsky vanished a nurse, who went to work, but so far her nothing it is known about her whereabouts. In the Leninsky district of Grozny 16 yrs old girl disappeared in unexplained circumstances . The searches, organized by the police and her relatives haven't given any results. In the cossack village of Shelkovskaya some armed people abducted a local resident from his house, they noted in the law-enforcement agencies. At the same time, in the village of Serzhen-Yurt , the corpse of 27 of yrs old local resident was discovered in his own house. On his body there were many bullet wounds. The police established that after midnight some armed people broke into his house and opened fire. The search for criminals is being conducted presently. Law-enforcement agencies also conduct the search of four young people, who as it was established, left Grozny to join the illegal armed units (NVF), reported to Interfax over the telephone a source in the law-enforcement agencies of republic. "In the course of operational-search measures it's been established that those young people left Grozny for the purpose to join the ranks in NVF, which commands Doka Umarov", described the collocutor of agency. He noted that the police with help of relatives and friends of those young people attempt to find them and bring them home before they will have time to commit crimes. The motives of their act are being investigated, checking is conducted if someone agitated those young people to enter the bandit group, the source said. eng.kavkaz.memo.ru Caucasian Knot 26/5/2005 Student abducted in Chechnya Russian military men abducted 24-year-old Magomed Salsanov, a four-year student at a Chechen higher education institution, from the Okruzhnaia temporary accommodation point for forced migrants in the capital of Chechnya at about 2.00 am today. The event was reported by dwellers of the accommodation point. They said the military had come in several cars and fired randomly in the air. "These were Russian military men, not local law enforcement agents," an accommodation point dweller says. "We had a clean-up yesterday morning which was conducted by local police officers and Russian military men. No claims were then made against anyone, basically. However, this night they came and took Magomed Salsanov. To the best of my knowledge, he is a four-year student at an institute or a university. No one knows where he is now or what he was taken for." The abducted man's relatives are trying to find him currently, according to the source. Author: Sultan Abubakarov, CK correspondent 27/5/2005 Abductions in Chechnya An unemployed local resident applied to the unit on duty of the Oktiabrskii District Division of Internal Affairs in Grozny. He said unidentified people in camouflage uniforms, armed with automatic weapons, abducted his son, a security guard with Transneftinvest, from the Okruzhnoi temporary accommodation point, Chechnya's Internal Affairs Ministry says. Another local resident applied to the unit on duty of the Zavodskoi District Division of Internal Affairs in Grozny. She said five unknown people in camouflage uniforms who threatened them automatic weapons abducted her son in Andreyevskaia St in Grozny's Kirov community on 25 May. A similar incident occurred in Grozny's Staropromyslovskii district on 25 May where five unknown people in camouflage uniforms penetrated into the house of a local resident and brought him away. 28/5/2005 Abuse in Chechnya, Ingushetia A local resident was abducted by law enforcement agents from his own house in the Kirov community in Grozny's Zavodskoi district in the evening on 25 May, according to information received by the Council of Nongovernmental Organisations from local residents. The circumstances of the incident and the name of the abducted man are being specified. Armed people in camouflage uniforms driving several cars without registration number plates abducted Tamerlan Movsayev, a 35-year-old local resident, in Grozny's Oktiabrskii district in the morning on 16 May. Law enforcement agents detained and brought away two people (their names are being specified) while conducting targeted "clean-ups" in Grozny's Leninskii district on 25 May. Both abducted men live in Altaiskaia St. Russian military and local law enforcement and security personnel, some of them in masks, conducted a "clean-up" in Roshni-Chu, Urus-Martan district, on 25 May. In many houses they conducted unauthorised searches. Armed people in camouflage uniforms abducted a young local resident from his own house in Achkhoi-Martan on 25 May. The circumstances of the incident and the name of the abducted man are being specified. A group of armed people in masks and camouflage uniforms abducted a local resident in Grozny's Staropromyslovskii district. Local residents believe the young man was most likely kidnapped for ransom, as one of his close relatives has a business. Armed people driving cars with Chechen registration number plates abducted Rustam Garsive, b. 1973, resident in Chechnya's Achkhoi-Martan district, in Orjonikidzevskaia, Sunzha district, Ingushetia, on 20 May. His relatives say he lives in Ingushetia as an internally displaced person. http://www.newsru.com/russia/30may2005/relativsmaskhd.html (tr. by M.L.) Human rights activists haven't been able to explain, what has happened with seven relatives of Maskhadov 30 May 2005, 17:32 last update: For human rights activists so far has been impossible to establish the fate of seven relatives of the former leader of Ichkeria Aslan Maskhadov, who disappeared in December of last year. "According to our data, till now there's nothing known about the fate of the relatives of Maskhadov", said on Monday to Interfax representative of Memorial human rights center Dmitriy Grushkin. He reported that the human rights activists got in touch with the close ones of those who disappeared, but there is "no new information on this subject". According to Memorial data, in the period from 3 to 28 December 2004, eight Maskhadov's relatives were detained. Among them - his sister, two brothers and a nephew of the former leader of Ichkeria. [passage omitted, Chechnya's prosecutor Kravchenko opens 8 criminal cases , article 126 UK RF - "kidnapping"] According to human rights activists, 8 relatives of Maskhadov were abducted Ramzan Kadyrov's soldiers According to Memorial 8 relatives of Aslan Maskhadov were abducted in December 2004 by members of the local siloviki structures, controlled by the vice- premier of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, who already after these events "for courage and heroism" was awarded by the President RF Vladimir Putin with the Star of Hero of Russia. This was discussed in the letter of human rights center the "memorial", that was sent in January to the editorial staff NEWSru.com. The members of Memorial questioned a number of witnesses of those abductions and from their words composed the picture of events that occurred in December. [details of those abductions omitted M.L.] 1. On 3 December 2004, Aslan Maskhadov's sister, Buchu Aliyevna Abdulkadyrova, born in 1937, was taken in the unknown direction around 9PM by members of the local siloviki structures, controlled by Ramzan Kadyrov. 2. On the same evening at 8:15 "kadyrovtsy" abducted Lecha Aliyevich Maskhadov, born in 1936, brother of Maskhadov. 3. Approx. the same time was abducted Adam Abdul-Karimovich Rashiyev, born in 1950 r., an invalid, a distant relative of Maskhadov. 4. Approximately around 8:00PM, the same day, "siloviki-kadyrovtsy" kidnapped Lema Aliyevich Maskhadov, 55 years old, brother of Maskhadov. 5. Approximately around this time "kadyrovtsy" abducted Ikhvan Vakhayevich Magomedov, 35 years old, a nephew of Maskadov (son of one of Maskhadov's sisters ). 6-8. On 28 December 2004, Maskhadov's niece and two sons-in-law were kidnapped. At night from her mother's house was forcibly taken away Khadizhat Vakhayevna Satuyeva, born in 1964, the married daughter of that abducted on 3 December Buchu Abdulkadyrova. "Kadyrovtsy", who arrived in the Zhiguli 10th model and Niva vehicles, climbed over the fence, grabbed her, and took her barefoot to the street. They demanded from her during her abduction that she would tell them where her husband lives. As it was found later, in the same night, that her husband, Usman Ramzanovich Satuyev, 47 years old, was taken away from their apartment, located in Grozny, Staropromyslovskiy district, Novaya suburb. Also was kidnapped his brother-in-law Movladi, 35 years old, who lives Grozny, Staropromyslovskiy district, Avtotrest suburb. Human rights activists note that the relatives of those seized as the hostages officially did not turn themselves into the public bodies of the Chechen republic. Officially the whereabouts of those abducted wasn't not known as of 12 of January 2005. However, through some channels the relatives of those who have been abducted became found out that they being kept in an illegal place of detention, in the native village of the "Kadyrovys clan" - Tsentoroy (to Khosi- Yurt) of the Gudermes district. Specifically there is located this illegal prison, in which "kadyrovtsy" keept the abducted and illegally detained by them many people. The last attempt of two women to meet with the mullah of the indicated village (he btw is the of Ramzan Kadyrov) was unsucessful. The armed guard, after learning, what question they want to ask, chase them away, it is written in this letter of Memorial. The Kavkazkiy Uzel reported that the inhabitants of Chechnya consider that abduction of the close relatives of Aslan Maskhadov was organized by the employyes of the security service of the President of Chechnya, headed by Ramzan Kadyrov. In the opinion of local residents, this was dome for the purpose to force Aslan Maskhadov to lay down the weapons and to surrender to the authorities. However, according to some data, Aslan Maskhadov stated that he will not surrender under any circumstances, even if siloviki take of all his close and distant relatives hostages, or even his whole kin. PRESS-RELEASE #1300 FROM MAY 26, 2005 REPORT FROM THE CHECHEN REPUBLIK Additional information concerning people abducted and disappeared in Chechnya On 20 May 2005 at about 3 am a group of twelve unidentified people abducted Mukushev Vakha saydalievich (born 1953) in the Chechen district center of Vedeno. The perpetrators were dressed in camouflage. There were masks on their faces. As of the present moment, Mukushev’s whereabouts remain unknown. At night from 20 May to 21 May, 2005 unidentifiable people in camouflage seized Usumov Mukhtar Isaevich (born 1979) in the settlement of Voykovo situated within the precincts of Oktyabrsky district of Grozny. As of the present moment, the fate and whereabouts of the abducted man remain unestablished. The next day on 21 May at 4 am five unidentified men seized a resident of Grozny Khakalov Imran Bershigevich (born 1962) from his own flat. On 20 May 2005 at 9 am a resident of the village of Chechen-Aul of the Chechen Grozny rural district left his house situated at the address 33 Aslanbek Sheripov Street and never came back home. On 19 May 2005 at 8.30 pm Shakhidov Ramzan Sultanovich (born 1978) disappeared without any traces left in the Chechen town of Argun. According to the testimonies of some local people, they saw him picking up two servicemen of the police. They drove away together. Ramzan’s relatives have not heard anything from him since that. His fate remains unknown. (From our correspondent)