Officers of Memorial Human Rights Center visited Dargo and ascertained that uniformed persons from the neighboring Nozhay-Yurt district regularly come to take young lads and sometimes even girls with them. In March 2009, we learnt that starting from January law enforcement agencies frequently abducted residents of the Dargo village of Vvedensky district. From time to time we get information from anonymous sources. In 2009, the tendency didn't change (Appendix 2). We still included one tragic case of applying to law enforcement bodies into the report (Appendix 1).ĭespite the drastic decrease in registered abductions of people by the law enforcement and in cases of tortures, the abductions, tortures and other violations of human rights nevertheless remain commonplace in the republic.īesides, in 2008 the numbers started to grow again, as shown in the tables below. Therefore, despite a decrease in abductions and extrajudicial executions, we cannot reliably determine how high the percentage of the information that we lose is. If they do come and tell about their grieves, they almost always prohibit us from making their stories public. In the end of 2007 such a presentation already resulted in a storm of protests from the leadership of the republic.īesides, the applicants themselves dare to approach us or the law enforcement bodies more and more rarely, more and more of them refuse to tell about the violent acts committed against them, fearing persecution by the authorities. Of course, the problem existed earlier as well, but the level of danger became such that we no longer risk publishing and presenting a report, which would openly tell about the situation in Chechnya. However, when compiling it we face the problem of safety both for those whose destinies we describe and of those officers of our organization who work in Chechnya. There has long been plenty of material for preparing the next yearly report. ![]() The previous sixth report on the situation of Chechens in Russia covered events through October 2007.
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