Chechen security services continue to arrest Chechens in Ingushetia
Timur Aliyev, North Caucasus - The Chechen security services still continue to arrest Chechen refugees in the Republic of Ingushetia.
On April 24, in the town of Nazran, several plainclothesmen detained three Chechen youths selling video equipment in the marketplace.
When two Ingush policemen tried to intervene, the men produced credentials from the Urus-Martan District Command for the Fight Against Organized Crime (RUBOP). According to eyewitnesses, the reason for arresting the boys was their possible participation in the Wahhabi movement.
The three were forcibly driven away, but one was later released near the Kavkaz checkpoint at the Chechen border.
According to nearby vendors, the youths actually were from Urus-Martan, and added that they had seen these RUBOP men hanging around the marketplace two days prior to the arrest.
The Ingush Ministry of Interior stated that the incident has not been reported.
What is even more disturbing is that these arrests are made in Ingushetia without any coordination with local authorities, stated the Human Rights Watch. Especially when Ingush president Murat Zyaikov met with Chechen human rights organizations on April 18 and announced that it is essential for the Minister of Interior to get such arrests under control. (D/E,T) |
