20:14, 28 May 2019

ECtHR awards compensations to relatives of 12 residents of Chechnya

The European Court of Human Rights. Photo: REUTERS/Vincent Kessler

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged Russian authorities to pay 1.168 million euros in compensation to relatives of 12 people who went missing during the second military campaign in Chechnya.

All the above complaints relate to disappearances of Chechen residents in 2002-2005, the "Legal Initiative" has informed.

Khanpashi Kakhiev was detained in May 2002 during a large-scale special operation in the village of Avruty. "Militaries grabbed him and took him away to an unknown place," his mother said.

The brothers Lem and Mair-Ali Shamayev were detained in February 2001 on their way to a shopping centre. In 2005, Ilez Khamkhoev was kidnapped in the yard of a house he was building. Arbi Umarov, Aslambek Umarov, Andarbek Abubakarov and Mairbek Murtazaliev were taken out, in April 2001, by men in military uniform, of the school in Novye Atagi, where refugees lived. Russian investigators failed to establish the fate of these people.

The second Chechen campaign began on September 30, 1999, after the August militants' invasion in Dagestan.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on May 28, 2019 at 04:07 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.