Released Chechen Fears of `Secret
Extradition'
/Civil Georgia, Tbilisi / 2005-01-05 18:37:05
Aslan Khanchukaev, ethnic Chechen, was released on January 5, after
serving his sentence in Tbilisi prison.
Khanchukaev was in a group of 13 Chechens, who were arrested by the
Georgian border guards for illegal crossing the border and possession
of arms in August, 2002.
In July, 2003 Tbilisi District Court acquitted four of them, including
Khanchukaev. But they remained imprisoned, since they were accused of
organizing disorders in the jail on October 4, 2002. Three other
Chechens will be released in coming days, according to the Georgian
media.
Detained Chechens organized riot in the prison shortly after their five
compatriots were handed over to Russia by the Georgian authorities,
protesting against the extradition.
Last February court also acquitted two others – Bekkhan Mulkoev and
Husein Alkhanov, who also were in the group of 13 Chechens detained by
the Georgian border guards in 2002.
However, shortly after their release both of them mysteriously
disappeared and on February 19 the Russian Federal Security Service
reported that the Russian law enforcers detained two Chechens –Mulkoev
and Alkhanov at the Georgian-Russian border. The news triggered protest
of the Chechen community in Georgia, which accused the Georgian
authorities of kidnapping two Chechens and secretly extraditing them to
Russia.
On January 5 the relatives of released Aslan Khanchukaev appealed the
Georgian human rights groups to closely watch the situation involving
released Chechens, as they fear of, as they put it, "secret
extraditions."
Jan 4 2005 11:12AM
Six go missing in Chechnya -
Interior Ministry
ROSTOV-ON-DON. Jan 4 (Interfax) - Six people have gone missing in
Chechnya over the past 24 hours, sources in the republic's Interior
Ministry told Interfax by phone on Tuesday.
Five of them were abducted by unidentified gunmen, law enforcement
sources said.
A group of gunmen entered the apartments of Oil Institute student
Said-Akhmed Makayev and teacher training school student Timur Tsakayev
in Grozny's Leninsky district, kidnapping the two men and seizing a
VAZ- 2106 car, the Interior Ministry sources said.
Daud Magomadov was abducted in Grozny's Oktyabrsky district, while
locomotive engineer Adam Magomedov was kidnapped in the town of Argun.
Shamsudin Vitigov, a United Russia party member, went missing at
Grozny's central market under unclear circumstances.
A search operation is in progress.
5.01.2005
Russia urged to protect rights
in Chechnya
Moscow, Russia. Observing human rights in Chechnya is crucial to
restoring order there, a leading Russian human rights activist told
Interfax news agency.
«If all problems in the area of protecting human rights are
resolved, the pace at which Chechnya is being restored will
accelerate," Moscow Helsinki Group head Lyudmila Alexeyeva told the
news agency Monday.
She said security agencies must act in compliance with the law and
observe the people's constitutional rights.
The process of reviving Chechnya's social sector has scored a number of
successes recently, Alexeyeva told Interfax. Schools have been opened
and hospitals repaired.
«Many Chechen residents have started to repair their own houses,
in spite of the fact that few people have received compensation for
destroyed houses and property," she added. «People are tired of
poor living standards. They want to live a normal life."
The Memorial human rights organization has put the number of residents
kidnapped in Chechnya in 2004 at 384. «Of them, 182 people have
been freed, 22 have been found dead, and 173 are still listed as
missing," Memorial spokesman Dmitry Grushkin told Interfax. UPI
http://chechentimes.org/en/news/?id=24906
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples
Organisation (UNPO)
2005-01-03
Chechen Republic of Ichkeria:
Mashkadov relatives kidnapped in Grozny
Open letter from Chechen leaders to the European Parliament
Dear Mister President Borrell, dear deputies,
We address to you, as leader of one of the most active European
Institutes, that obtained large and deserved authority with the Chechen
people for its principle attitude on the protection of human rights.
As known, the Chechen leadership headed by President Aslan Maskhadov
steps into the forefront against terrorism and fights for many years
against Russian state terrorism and the genocide of the Chechen people.
Last week, Russian special services and criminal gangs, supported by
the Kremlin and led by the notorious Chechen Kvisling, Kadyrov the
younger, took as hostage in Grozny and other cities and villages the
family of the President of the Chechen Republic Aslan Maskhadov. Among
them are his brothers Lechi Maskhadov, 76 years old, Lyema Maskhadov,
68 years old, his sister Dzhovzhan Abdu1kadyrova (Maskhadova), 69 years
old, and also two cousins: Adam Reshiev, 60 years old, and lkhvan
Magomadov, 63 years old . Besides, during the last weeks the
hostage-taking of women, elderly and children reached a massive
character. This happened after the declaration of the
prosecutor-general Ustinov on "The collective responsibility of
"terrorists"".
A massive, and politically motivated kidnapping of people is taking
place in the open. This is considered to be an attempt to solve
political problems, using terrorist methods, which is a grave violation
of all norms of international law and a barbaric act of state terror,
which needs to be immediately condemned in very strong wordings.
Therefore we ask you to undertake acute measures, in order to guarantee
safety to the family of the political leader of Chechnya and to all
other hostages.
We ask you to demand from the president of the Russian Federation,
Mr.Putin, to immediately release the kidnapped civilians, including the
relatives of AsIan Maskhadov, President of the Chechen Republic
Ichkeria.
Yours sincerely,
Umar Khanbiev, Minister of Health, general representative of the
President of ChRI abroad Selim Beshaev, first vice-chair of the
Parliament of ChRI Lyema Saralyapov, ad-interim Chair of the Parliament
of ChRI, Khamid Yangulbavev, deputy of the Parliament of ChRI Apti
Shkhgiriyev, deputy of the Parliament of ChRI Khizri Batsuyev, deputy
of the Parliament of ChRI
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