Reuters reported, a Chechen mother accused puppet authorities in Chechnya on Friday of kidnapping her daughter, missing for five weeks in what rights groups say is part of a growing trend of abductions.
As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, on November 25 in Karabulak, two suspected militants were killed in a skirmish in their VAZ-2109 car. The casualties were Mustafa Tochiev and Khamzat Uzhakhov. Mustafa was in federal search. However, the eyewitnesses and Uzhakhov’s relatives assert that Tochiev was just a passenger in Uzhakhov’s taxi car.
Russian Prosecutors in Chechnya say the slaying of Zarema Sadulayeva, a prominent human rights activist in this August was not connected to her work, RFE/RL’s Russian service reports.
From time to time Natalya Estemirova, a tireless, seemingly fearless defender of the human rights of fellow Chechens, held public vigils in her republic, defiantly holding up the photos of people who had vanished.
The Belgian authorities will extradite to Russia a Chechen man who has been granted the status of a political refugee as believed to have been persecuted for political motives.
On Thursday, November 26 at 5 p.m. Akhmed Labazanov and Vakha Dadaev were taken to Helsinki to the deportation camp to be deported to Poland. A group of well-known human rights defenders applied to Finnish Supreme Administrative Court for preventing to deportation.
On November 24, the British Foreign Press Association Media Awards 2009 presented to its winners in London. One of the awards went to Lucy Ash and Nick Sturdee on their radio broadcasting at BBC about women in Chechnya.
According to Masrawy, a news agency in Egypt, with the reference to the bureau of Amnesty International in Alexandria city of Egypt, Ibragim Zautdinovich Mankiev are subjecting to severe torture.
The British newspaper Guardian reported, following controversies on pro-Moscow Chechen leader Kadirov, the British Horseracing Authority is bringing in new rules for next year that would ban Kadirov, and others of questionable character, from racing horses in Britain.
Activists of ten NGOs from different regions of Russia and Chechnya have announced establishment of the Public Commission on Chechnya, which will have its main tasks in defending victims of torture and inhuman treatment and bringing those guilty of rough violations of human rights or of failure to take the necessary measures to prevent such violations and punish for them to responsibility.
The report of Thomas Hammarberg , Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe on following his visit to the Russia, Chechnya and Ingushetia on 2 -11 September 2009, was published today.
Kavkaz-Uzel reported, On Thursday, November 20, the Reception Centre of Foreign Press in Paris hosted a press conference of Arseniy Roginskiy, a well-known Russian historian, human rights activist and chair of the board of the Society “Memorial”.
43rd session UN Committee against Torture was held in Geneva during November 2-20. As a result of the session, UN Committe against Torture confirmes that deportee Chechen refugees may face a real risk of torture.
According to Turkish internet agency World Bulletin, Viskhan Abdurakhmanov, a Chechen refugee in Azerbaijan, was found dead in a street of Baku. Viskhan was missing nearly for two weeks.
Isa Yamadayev, a national traitor, has appealed to Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russian Federation, in an open letter published by the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. Yamadayev says in the letter that puppet Kadirov wants to kill him and asks Medvedev for help and protection.
Melbourne Cup ended, however discussions about puppet Kadirov doesn’t stop. Australian Federal Government has less than a week to decide whether to freeze $420,000 in Melbourne Cup prize money due to be sent to Chechen leader and alleged tyrant Ramzan Kadirov.
Ibragim Mankiev, a native of Ingushetia, who was kidnapped in Egypt, was in fact detained by local special agencies as a suspect of links with fighters of Caucasus front.
