The Austrian national public service broadcast service “ORF” has reported that a young Chechen man, with a championship title in taekwondo, is facing deportation from Austria.
The Waynakh Online IT management team has determined that an attempted hacking was undertaken after Russian hackers placed secret code inside the Waynakh.com server.
The website “Kavkaz-Uzel” has reported that unidentified armed and masked men attempted to kidnap a local man in the Russian occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
Austrian journalist and Russia expert Susanne Scholl has started an online petition which addresses the Austrian Federal Government and asks for an end to the extradition of Chechen asylum seekers.
Local sources have reported that about 150 people walked to the Waidhofen town center to express solidarity with Musa Malinkov and his family, who are facing the threat of deportation.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has fined Georgia at 1100 Euro for unlawful detention of two Chechen refugees; and Russia at 550 thousand Euro for disappearances of 8 Chechen civilians between March 2002 and July 2004.
The national Austrian daily newspaper “Der Standard” has reported that a Chechen mother and her two children, who are seeking asylum in Austria, are facing deportation.
The Vienna based Austrian newspaper, Kurier has reported that the Green Party is asking Austrian authorities to stop the deportation of Chechen asylum seekers.
Zara Murtazaliyeva, a young Chechen girl falsely convicted of terrorism and sentenced to nine years in prison in 2004 was released from a Russian prison in September 2012. She has recently asked for asylum in France.
The Austrian media has reported that one of the Chechen asylum seekers, who were recently extradited from Vienna to Moscow, was abducted at a Moscow airport and his fate is unknown.