Grozny resident asks for help in securing release of her husbandRuslan Isayev, North Caucasus – Grozny resident Yelizaveta Markhiyeva has applied to the Nazran office of the Russian human rights organization Memorial for help in securing the release of her husband, 24-year-old Zaurbek Gaziyev.
She says that on the morning of January 2 about ten passenger cars drove up to their house. They contained more than 20 armed men, who rushed into the house, wounded Zaurbek, who had not yet managed to get out of bed and, throwing him into a car, took him off in an unknown direction.
Yelizaveta Markhiyeva was badly beaten, and her two small children were terrified. Gold jewellery, money, a telephone and other items were also taken from the house.
Relatives began to make inquiries and soon found Zaurbek in one of the wards of Grozny’s City Hospital No. 9, under police guard. In the hospital admissions register he was listed as an unknown person. After this, his captors speedily removed him from the hospital, pretending he was dead.
However, Gaziyev’s relatives found him again, this time in Nozhay-Yurt District Hospital. Access to him was denied, as previously. The relatives fear that Zaurbek may be kept hidden indefinitely, and that finding him will be problematic. There are very many such cases in Chechnya.
(MD/T)
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