As reported by an employee of one of the local NGOs in Chechnya, engaged in human rights defence and legal aid to civilians, last week, two city dwellers of Shali were abducted and taken away to some unknown location by unidentified gang members of puppet regime.

According to official press release from the Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman, more than 80 passengers including Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria, head of the Polish army and the head of the presidential administration, along with the central bank governor, other senior officials and their families, died in a plane crash today morning in Russia.

Tyden.cz reported that the regional court in Brno has cancelled a decision by the Czech Interior Ministry not to grant international protection to Timur Borchashvili, a Georgian citizen of Chechen descent.

A local Danish news agency reported that Chechen, Kosovan and Afhgan asylum seekers have fighted with each others at Sandholm migration center 25 km away from Copenhag on April 7.

On Easter Monday, it is a time for celebration in the depths of a bookseller’s storage room in Helsinki’s district of Kruununhaka. Cakes and chepalgish, Chechen butter-baked bread, are carried to the table.

Today, Medet Unlu, the Honorary Consul of Chechen Republic Ichkeria in Turkey, published a statement that “temporary residence permits” for Chechen asylum seekers in Turkey will be grant for one year.

Federal arrest warrants have been issued for three brothers of Ingush opposition activist Magomed Khazbiev, Kavkaz-Uzel reported.

Human Rights Center “Memorial” reported that on March 26, 2010 the members of the Shatoy district puppet administration in Chechnya closed a municipal market situated in the village of Borzoy.

Turkish media reported, Mehdi Nuzhet Cetinbas, head of Caucasus Foundation’s Original Board, put into words that the children of Chechen refugees in Turkey should be allowed to study at schools of Turkish Ministry of Education and the government must prepare a legal regulation on this children’s pass degrees.

According to a news which was published at PolskaLokalna.pl‘s “Podlaskie” region, two local Polish youngs were arrested because they give out distributing stickers against Chechen asylum seekers in Łomża city of Poland.

Human Rights Center “Memorial” reported that on March 24-26, 2010 the delegation of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) headed by Dick Marty – PACE speaker, head of the PACE Commission on legal issues and human rights, visited Ingushetia, Chechnya and Dagestan.

Kavkazcenter reported that the relatives of Said Hussein Soltagheriyev, a Chechen refugee, who lives in France since 5 years were kidnapped in Chechnya.

“There’s no stability whatsoever in Chechnya. Russia has no policy for Northern Caucasus – only an attempt to use bayonets that leads to numerous victims only”. This was stated by Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender, chair of the committee “Civil Assistance”, a member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial” and a member of the Board on Human Rights at the President of the Russian Federation, last week in Moscow in the Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Centre during expanded debates “Conflicts in the Caucasus” from the general cycle “War and Peace”.

The Helsinki Times, a Finnish newspaper, reported that Chechen humanitarian activist Khadizhat Gataeva and her husban Malik Gataev were released.

An article to a former Canadian model Chrystal Callahan, now an anchorwoman of the English-language broadcasts in pro-Moscow puppets’ tv channel, has been devoted in the German paper of Süddeutsche Zeitung.

March 24 is “World Tuberculosis (TB) Day”. A Chechen woman explain to be a TB patient in Chechnya for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) which has been implementing TB treatment and support programmes in Chechnya since 2004.

Helsingin Sanomat, a Finnish newspaper, reported that Khadizhat and Malik Gataev, who have remained in custody in Finland since beginning of January, may soon walk free.

Human Rights Center Memorial reported that national traitors in fighting with Chechen mujahedeen does not change and still comprises threats and pressure on relatives and putting their houses on fire.  

The UK Foreign Secretary launched the 2009 Annual Report on Human Rights, in which Chechnya and Russia are listed under “Countries of Concern”, at an event in Lancaster House.

Chechen sportsman got successful results at judo and wrestling competitions in Germany, Austria, Belgium and Finland.

We have already reported about Russian army’s special operation in the village of Ekazhevo in Ingushetia on March 2-3, 2010. Human Rights Center Memorial exposed details of the operation.

Ichkeria.info reported that abductions, extrajudical punishments and torture of innocent people in Chechnya is going on.