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Chechen detainee missing in Prigorodnoye

By Ruslan Isayev

CHECHNYA - On Sunday four local residents of the village of Prigorodnoye in the Groznensky district of Chechnya were abducted on the village outskirts, apparently by members of the official law enforcement agencies.

The young men were travelling from Grozny in a passenger car which belonged to one of them. At the entrance to the village their way was blocked by several vehicles containing armed personnel. All the young men were forced to get into them at gunpoint, and a convoy of five or six vehicles set off in the direction of Grozny, where it disappeared without trace.
 
A few hours later, three of the detainees returned home. The whereabouts of the fourth abducted man, named Khavazh, are still unknown. The three men who were released do not know where they were taken, nor do they know the reasons for their abduction. Once their documents had been checked they were set free, and were told they had been arrested by mistake.
 
Khavazh’s relatives are making every effort to trace him, but latest reports say that so far they have had no success. All the law enforcement agencies they have checked with via their own channels have denied involvement in the young man’s arrest.

(D/T)