ECHR Cases from the North Caucasus

On 23 April 2004 (in the documents submitted the date was also referred to as 23 March 2005) a group of men in camouflage uniforms seized Mr Isa Gaydakov on a street in Grozny and took him away. On 1 August 2005 the Leninskiy district prosecutor’s office in Grozny opened criminal case no. 40157 (in the documents submitted the number was also referred to as 44064). The investigation is still pending.

On 11 September 2002 a group of armed servicemen arrived at the applicant’s house in three APCs and three UAZ vehicles and took Mr Khamzat Larsanov away. On 26 September 2002 the Grozny town prosecutor’s office opened criminal case no. 48162. The investigation is still pending.

On 5 February 2003 a group of armed servicemen arrived at the applicants’ house in an UAZ minivan and a Gazel minivan and took Mr Magomed Azizov away. On 8 February 2003 the Shali district prosecutor’s office opened criminal case no. 22026. The investigation is still pending.

On 10 August 2005 a group of armed servicemen in two UAZ vehicles arrested Mr Sayd-Eli Garbulatov in Grozny and took him away. On 8 May 2006 the Zavodskoy district prosecutor’s office in Grozny opened criminal case no. 51072. The investigation is still pending.

On 20 November 2000 a group of armed servicemen arrived at the applicants’ house in an APC and an Ural lorry and took Mr Musa Tashayev away. On 17 May 2001 the Urus-Martan district prosecutor’s office opened criminal case no. 25052. The investigation is still pending.

On 4 June 2002 Mr Tapa Tagirov left his home in Yandare and disappeared. A few hours later his brother Mr Apti Tagirov left to search for him and also disappeared. On 7 June 2002 fifteen armed men in two white GAZelle minivans without registration numbers arrived at the applicants’ house with Mr Tapa Tagirov, searched the premises and left with Mr Tapa Tagirov. On 3 October 2004 the Nazran district prosecutor’s office opened criminal case no. 045000023. The investigation is still pending.

On 29 April 2000 Mr Isa Tovdayev went to a rubbish dump in Petropavlovskaya, Chechnya, and never returned home. On 12 February 2001 the Chechnya prosecutor’s office opened criminal case no. 19016. The investigation is still pending.

On 12 May 2002 (in the documents submitted the date was also referred to as 17 May 2002) a group of men seized Mr Said-Magomed Abdulazimov in the centre of Chiri-Yurt, Chechnya, and took him away in a Gazel minivan. On 1 August 2002 the Shali district prosecutor’s office opened criminal case no. 59177. The investigation is still pending.

On the morning of 29 December 2004 Mr Ibragim Altyyev, who was a taxi driver in Grozny at the material time, left his home and went to work. He did not return. On the following day, two unidentified men contacted the applicant and gave her the passport of Mr Ibragim Altyyev and some documents from his car. On the same date the car was found abandoned on a street in the Zavodskoy district of Grozny. According to the applicant, she learned from an eyewitness, Mr R.B., that Mr Ibragim Altyyev had been abducted by a group of armed men in camouflage uniforms who had been in a Gazel minivan and a VAZ-21099 car. The men had stopped Mr Ibragim Altyyev’s car on a street in Grozny, apprehended him and driven off. Mr R.B. was subsequently questioned by the investigators. The whereabouts of Mr Ibragim Altyyev have remained unknown ever since.

On 14 July 2000 (in the documents submitted the date was also referred to as 15 July 2000) Mr Ibragim Nurkayev left his home in Grozny and never returned. On 4 September 2006 the Staropromyslovskiy district prosecutor’s office in Grozny opened criminal case no. 53121. The investigation is still pending.

On 8 January 2002 Mr Khamzat Beldurov left his home in Sernovodskaya, Chechnya, and did not come back. On 14 November 2002 the Sunzhenskiy district department of the interior in Chechnya opened search file no. 23005. On 26 December 2005 the Achkhoy-Martan inter-district prosecutor’s office opened criminal case no. 59023. The investigation is still pending.

On 28 November 2002 a group of armed servicemen arrived at the applicant’s house and took Mr Akhmed Abdulkerimov and Mr Abu-Shakhid Abdulkerimov away. On 6 December 2002 the Vedeno district prosecutor’s office opened criminal case no. 73124. The investigation is still pending.

On 8 August 2002 a group of armed servicemen in an APC and an UAZ (“tabletka”) minivan apprehended Mr Makhran Tayubov on the Rostov-Baku motorway next to Gudermes and took him away. On 9 August 2002 the Gudermes district prosecutor’s office opened criminal case no. 57063. The investigation is still pending.

The circumstances of the abduction are similar to those described above in Makayeva v. Russia (no. 56577/11). On 18 February 2003 the Urus‑Martan prosecutor’s office opened criminal case no. 34024. The investigation is currently pending.

On 23 May 2005 Mr Alash Elmurzayev was taken by servicemen to the Vostok battalion’s headquarters in Gudermes. His whereabouts have remained unknown ever since. On 4 July 2008 the Gudermes inter-district investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened criminal case no. 44028. The investigation is still pending.

At about 3 a.m. on 25 January 2003 a group of armed men in camouflage military uniforms and masks broke into the house at 16 Kluchevaya Street in Goy-Chu and took Mr Mokhadi Makayev and Mr Isa Dzhabrailov away to an unknown destination. On 20 March 2003 the Urus-Martan district prosecutors’ office opened criminal case no. 34031. The investigation is currently pending.

On 2 November 2002 Mr Alaudi Tutkhanov was abducted from his work in Achkhoy-Martan by servicemen in camouflage uniforms who drove in two UAZ vehicles. On 29 November 2002 the Achkhoy-Martan district prosecutor’s office opened criminal case no. 63095. The investigation is currently pending.

On 5 October 2000 a group of about ten armed servicemen arrived at the applicants’ house in a military Ural lorry and a UAZ vehicle and took Mr Abdallakh Zanziyev away. On 31 October 2000 the Grozny city prosecutor’s office opened criminal case no. 12203. The investigation is still pending.

On 3 May 2000 a group of armed servicemen arrived at the applicant’s house in Avtury in two UAZ minivans (“tabletka”) without identification numbers, four APCs and a URAL lorry and took Mr Mukhadi Maltsagov away. On 25 December 2000 the Shali district prosecutor’s office opened criminal case no. 22087. The investigation is currently pending.

At about 10 p.m. on 11 March 2004 Mr Rasukhan Yevloyev and Mr Ibragim Izmaylov were driving in their white VAZ 2107 car on the
motorway from the direction of the town of Malgobek towards the Volga-14 stationary traffic checkpoint located at the intersection of the
Malgobek-Mayskoye and Nazran-Kantyshevo motorways in Ingushetia (also known as the Kantyshevkiy intersection). When they reached the checkpoint, a dark-grey metallic (цвет «мокрый асфальт») VAZ 21099 car without registration numbers overtook them at high speed and blocked the road. At the same time a white Niva car without registration numbers approached them from behind and bumped into their car’s rear end. Ten armed men in camouflage uniforms and balaclavas jumped out of the two cars, surrounded Mr Rasukhan Yevloyev and Mr Ibragim Izmaylov and opened fire; the armed men then handcuffed them, forced them into their vehicles and drove off in the direction of Nazran.