More than twenty people have been kidnapped within the space of one month in two districts of ChechnyaRuslan Isayev
CHECHNYA – Between March 16 and April 19 in the village of Starye Atagi representatives of the official law enforcement agencies arrested 6 people, including a young woman of 23, and drove them off in an unknown direction:
Ruslan Ebayev, 50, father of 2. Lived in Moscow. Abducted on April 15 by Chechen and Russian law enforcers. Present location unknown.
Rizvan Oybuyev, 34. Abducted by soldiers on March 18-19. Mother and father badly beaten. Present location unknown.
Aslan Turluyev. Abducted by soldiers on March 27. Was in RUBOP (Regional Center for Fight against Organized Crime). Signed documents under pressure.
On April 15-16 medical nurse Yupayeva (Apayeva), aged 22-23, was abducted from a hospital. Seized by soldiers. Present location unknown.
On April 19 Ramzan Kuntayev, 30, and Rustam Sambiyev, 25. Kuntayev – a police official – was released, but the other man cannot be found.
A Moscow businessman named Maayev, who had come home to stay for a while, was kidnapped and abducted by an unknown law enforcement agency on the second night of his arrival. He was freed on payment of a large ransom.
A few days ago Movsar Davletbiyev and his son were kidnapped from the village of Chiri-Yurt. The father was beaten up and released, while the son is still being held in the SIZO (detention center) in Shali. He is being made to give information about the location of guerrillas.
In the neighbouring village of Duba-Yurt two local residents have also been kidnapped.
For 19 days now there has been no information on the whereabouts of two residents of Argun – Kazbek Khizrailov and Saykhan Umalatov. They were arrested by officials of one of the law enforcement agencies beside the Argun highway while gathering scrap metal on a rubbish dump.
Both are suspected of laying landmines on the highway while pretending to gather scrap metal.
In the space of one month more than twenty people have been kidnapped in four villages of the Shali and Grozny rural districts.
Translated by David McDuff. (MD/A)
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