• Resident of Ingushetia Abducted in Chechnya

    August 24, 2012 admin

    Waynakh Online has received an e-mail reporting the abduction of an Ingush man in the Russian occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

  • Bulgarian Court Releases Chechen Refugee

    August 24, 2012 admin

    In early August of 2012, the mass media reported the arrest of a Chechen man on the border of Bulgaria and Turkey as a terrorism suspect. However, a Bulgarian district court has decided to release him.

  • Kaspersky Blocks Waynakh Online

    August 16, 2012 admin

    Users of the Kaspersky anti-virus program are reporting that they cannot access Waynakh Online because the software blocks the site and displays a warning message which reads: “Access Forbidden – Dangerous Link”.

  • Appeal to Mikheil Saakashvili

    August 15, 2012 admin

    The Council of Chechen Refugees in Azerbaijan has appealed to the President of Georgia, Mr. Mikheil Saakashvili on behalf of two former Chechen resistance fighters who face extradition from Azerbaijan to Russia.

  • Chechen Family Faces Deportation From Sweden

    August 11, 2012 admin

    “Radio Sveriges” has reported that a family of Chechen asylum seekers living in the city of Sundsvall, Sweden, is facing forced deportation to the Russian occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. Both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch believe that the family should not return due to the high risk to their safety.

  • Fears Rising Over Fate of Two Refugees Wanted By Russia

    August 11, 2012 admin

    Russia is pressing Ukraine for the extradition of two refugees. Although international law forbids Ukraine from sending them back, one has disappeared from a Kyiv detention center while the other was so severely beaten in custody he slipped into a coma.

  • Finland to Deport Tortured Chechen to Russia

    August 9, 2012 admin

    Finnish police is transporting a Chechen asylum seeker, Makhmud Dzhabrailov, to the border with Russia for deportation.

  • Eid and Injustice For Chechens Behind Bars

    August 7, 2012 admin

    For the last two weeks we have been bombarded with some cold news from Dubai Central Jail:

  • Issa Adayev Dies

    August 4, 2012 admin

    Issa Adayev, former director of the National Museum of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, has died in Poland.

  • Chechen Family Facing Deportation From Norway

    August 2, 2012 admin

    Norwegian Radio and Television Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) has reported that a Chechen asylum seeking family that was living in the village of Melbu in Norway’s Nordlan County, is facing the threat of forced deportation to Russia.

  • Turkey Seeks Suspected Russians in Chechen Murders

    August 1, 2012 admin

    The daily Turkish newspaper “Haber Turk” has reported that 10 months after the assassination of three Chechen asylum seekers in Istanbul, Turkish authorities have asked Interpol to create a “Red Notice” for Alexander Zharkov (Garkov), and issued an arrest warrant at all their border crossings for Nadim Ayupov.

  • ECHR Fines Russian State Terror Against Chechen Civilians

    July 31, 2012 admin

    The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has fined Russia at two judgement at around 170,000 Euros for torture, abduction and disappearance of four male Chechen civilians in the Russian occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and the Russia’s Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, the court said in a statement today.

  • First Chechen Jiu Jitsu Black Belt

    July 30, 2012 admin

    Ashraf Adham Shishani, an ethnic Chechen from the old diaspora in Jordan, has become the first Chechen Jiu Jitsu Black belt holder.

  • Punishment Operations Against Former Resistance Fighters Continue

    July 24, 2012 admin

    Local sources have reported that two male civilians were abducted in the Russian occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

  • One Chechen’s Cry From A Russian Jail: “Do These People Have Hearts?”

    July 24, 2012 admin

    One day in early 2004, a Chechen man was stopped outside the gate of his home in the western part of the Russian occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria. The Russian soldiers took him away and thus began his nightmarish journey through the justice system of Russia’s restive, war-torn North Caucasus.

  • (Not) All Fun and Games: Soft Power and Sports in the Caucasus

    July 22, 2012 admin

    On March 8, 2011 an all star football team from Brazil battled the reigning FIFA world champions from Chechnya and their captain; FIFA Player of the Year Ramzan Kadyrov.

  • Chechen Family Faces Deportation from France

    July 21, 2012 admin

    L’Indépendant, a daily regional newspaper, has reported that a Chechen asylum seeking family who lives in Perpignan is facing a forced deportation threat from France to the Russian occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

  • Chechen Woman Abducted in Vedeno

    July 19, 2012 admin

    Local sources have reported that armed invaders from the Russian Interior Ministry’s Criminal Investigation Department abducted a woman in the Russian occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

  • Turkey Closes Chechen Refugee Camps

    July 18, 2012 admin

    Waynakh Online has received information from Chechen asylum seekers living in unofficial Chechen refugee camps that the Turkish government has decided to close the camps.

  • Charity Concert for Chechen Women

    July 18, 2012 admin

    A charity guitar concert for Chechen women will be held in Dresden, Germany on Saturday, July 21.

  • WEYDU Organized a Paintball Event

    July 17, 2012 admin

    The non-governmental independent Chechen youth organization “Waynakh European Youth Development Union: WEYDU” organized a paintball event in Belgium.

  • Protest in Memory of Natalya Estemirova

    July 17, 2012 admin

    Amnesty International’s Paris branch organized a protest in memory of the murdered Chechen rights defender, Natalya Estemirova.