Polish media sources have reported that unknown individuals set fire to a flat where a Chechen asylum seeker family lives, in the city of Białystok, Poland.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has fined Russia at about 62 thousand Euro for Russia’s failure to investigate and abduction of a young Chechen man.
Turkish media sources have reported that Russia did not share any information about the Russian suspect in the assassination of three Chechen asylum seekers in Turkey in late 2011.
The Munich based daily national German newspaper, The Süddeutsche Zeitung, has reported that the Bavarian Refugee Council accused the Ansbach Immigration Office in the extradition of part of a Chechen family to Poland.
Austrian journalist and Russia expert Susanne Scholl has participated in a panel called “Asylum as Human Rights” and talked about the attitude of Austrian authorities towards Chechen asylum seekers.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will be in the city of Hannover, Germany to participate in the opening ceremony of a trade fair. However, local activists are inviting everyone to welcome the war criminal Putin with protests.
A Flemish daily newspaper, “De Standard” has reported that a Chechen, who has been granted refugee status in Belgium, is facing the threat of extradition from Greece to Russia.
Local sources have reported that a group of Chechen refugees organized a protest in front of the Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGVS) in Brussels, Belgium.
The Russian newspaper “Novaya Gazeta” has reported that Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers are on strike because of the release of Ramzan Kadyrov’s bodyguards, who are accused of abduction, torture and extortation.
Welcome Yankee, a short metrage film about a Chechen refugee couple, will be shown at the 13th edition of the ReelWorld Film Festival in Toronto, Canada.
Mayrbek Taramov, director of the Chechen Human Rights Center, has reported that he has been informed about illegaly held male and female Chechens in Russia’s Rostov region.