The European Court of Human Rights has notified the following two judgments related with the abductions and disappearances of Chechen civilians.<\/p>\n
Here is the press release:<\/span><\/p>\n EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n Press Release<\/strong> Alpatu Israilova v. Russia (no. 15438\/05)<\/strong> Both cases concern disappearances, in Dagestan and the Chechen Republic.<\/p>\n The applicant in the first case<\/strong>, Alpatu Israilova, is a Russian national who was born in 1955 and lives in Khasavyurt, Dagestan (Russia). She alleged that her husband, Yeraly Israilov, born in 1953, and their two sons were taken away from the family home on 19 October 2004 by Russian servicemen for questioning at the Gudermes military base in Chechnya. Her two sons were released four days later but her husband has never been seen since.<\/p>\n The applicants in the second case<\/strong>, Nurzhan, Limon, Luisa, Khava, and Kheda Avkhadova, are Russian nationals who live in Urus-Martan, the Chechen Republic (Russia). They are the mother and sisters of Vakhit Avkhadov, born in 1979, whom they have not seen since the early hours of the morning of 24 April 2001 when a group of armed men in camouflage uniforms broke into the family home in Urus-Martan and took him away. The only news they managed to obtain was allegedly from a Russian servicemen stationed not far away from Urus-Martan who confirmed that he had seen Vakhit Avkhadov being brought to the base and placed in a pit and later being taken away in a helicopter.<\/p>\n The applicants alleged in particular that their relatives had been unlawfully detained and must have subsequently been killed by Russian servicemen. They also complained that the ensuing investigation into their allegations had been inadequate. All the applicants Ms Israilova also complained under Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life and the home) that the servicemen who had searched her house on 19 October 2004 had not showed her a search warrant. Lastly, she complained that she and her relatives had been repeatedly summoned to Gudermes military base in Chechnya for questioning in order to dissuade her from maintaining her application to the European Court of Human Rights, in breach of Article 34 (right of individual petition).<\/p>\n In the case of Alpatu Israilova:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Two violations of Article 2<\/strong> (right to life + investigation) In the case of Avkhadova and Others:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Two violations of Article 2<\/strong> (right to life + investigation) The European Court of Human Rights has notified the following two judgments related with the abductions and disappearances of Chechen civilians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"views":648,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10295,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10294\/revisions\/10295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n ECHR 081 (2013)<\/strong>
\n 14.03.2013<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n Avkhadova and Others v. Russia (no. 47215\/07)<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nrelied on Article 2 (right to life), Article 3 (prohibition of torture and of inhuman or degrading treatment), Article 5 (right to liberty and security) and Article 13 (right to an effective remedy).<\/p>\n
\nNo violation of Article 3 (ill-treatment + investigation \u2013 in respect of Yeraly Israilov)
\nViolation of Article 3<\/strong> (mental suffering \u2013 in respect of the applicant)
\nViolation of Article 5<\/strong> (in respect of Yeraly Israilov)
\nViolation of Article 8<\/strong> (search carried out at the applicant\u2019s home)
\nViolation of Article 13<\/strong> in conjunction with Articles 2 and 3
\nNo violation of Article 34
\nJust satisfaction:<\/strong> EUR 65,000 (non-pecuniary damage) and EUR 3,500 (costs and expenses)<\/p>\n
\nViolation of Article 3<\/strong> (mental suffering \u2013 in respect of the applicants)
\nViolation of Article 5<\/strong> (in respect of Vakhit Avkhadov)
\nViolation of Article 13<\/strong> in conjunction with Articles 2 and 3
\nJust satisfaction:<\/strong> EUR 45,000 to Nurzhan Avkhadova and EUR 15,000 to the other four applicants jointly (non-pecuniary damage), and GBP 1,911.05 (costs and expenses)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"