Cases 521 - 540 of 766

Sagaipova and Others v. Russia, (332/08)

Judgement date: 18/12/2012
Communicated: 06/07/2009
Lodged: 16/11/2007
Date of violations: 23/02/2003
Location: Chechnya, village of Dachu-Borzoy
Representative: D. Itslayev
Violation: Disappearance

On the night of 22 February 2003 a group of Russian federal servicemen, arriving on several APCs (armoured personnel carrier), apprehended Ayub Nalbiyev in his home in the village of Dachu-Borzoy. Later that night, Badrudin Abazov and Ramzan Tepsayev were similarly taken from their homes in the village by Russian federal servicemen. Ayub, Badrudin and Ramzan have been missing since.

 

Barshova v. Russia, (8300/07)

Judgement date: 18/12/2012
Communicated: 27/05/2009
Lodged: 09/01/2007
Date of violations: 23/10/2002
Location: Chechnya, Grozny
Representative: D. Itslayev
Violation: Disappearance

On 23 October 2002 at about 2 a.m. a large group of Russian servicemen burst into a house in Grozny where the Barshov family was sleeping. The men searched the house before violently apprehending Anzor and Sulumbek Barshow. They tied up the other family members and covered their mouths with adhesive tape before leaving. The family has had no news of Anzor and Sulumbek since.

 

Aslakhanova v. Russia , (2944/06)

Judgement date: 18/12/2012
Communicated: 07/05/2008
Lodged: 13/01/2006
Date of violations: 10/03/2002
Location: Chechnya, Grozny
Representative: SRJI
Violation: Disappearance

At about 10 a.m. on 10 March 2002 a large group of armed Russian military servicemen conducted a sweeping-up operation in Dzerzhinskogo Street in Grozny. They arrived in APCs and military Ural cars, went into the houses and checked identity documents. At the Avtayev's house, they apprehended Apti Avtayev and drove away with him in an unknown direction. He has not been seen since. The criminal investigation into his disappearance has not been meaningful.

 

Tangiyev v. Russia, (27610/05)

Judgement date: 11/12/2012
Communicated: 05/10/2009
Lodged: 22/06/2005
Date of violations: 11/04/2003
Location: Chechnya, Grozny
Representative: SRJI
Violation: Torture

On 11 April 2003 police officers from ORB-2 and the Staropromyslovskiy ROVD stormed Timur Tangiyev's house in Grozny, threatened to burn his family alive and detained him. The police officers started to extinguish cigarettes and matches on his body as soon as they got into the police car. Timur was taken to the Staropromyslovskiy ROVD where he was severely beaten up. In the following months, he was detained at the Staropromyslovskiy IVS and ORB-2 and subjected to repeated torture and ill-treatment, including with electric shocks, beatings, cigarette burns and suffocation. At some point he signed a self-incriminating confession. The Prosecutor's office refused to open a criminal inquiry into the ill-treatment despite the existence of medical reports and witness statements in support of his complaints. In 2005, Timur was convicted to over twenty-three years imprisonment on the basis of the confessions obtained through torture.

 

Adayev v. Russia, (10746/08)

Communicated: 08/11/2012
Lodged: 13/02/2008
Date of violations: 04/07/2007
Location: Chechnya
Representative: D. Itslayev
Violation: Fair trial

Оn 4 April 2007 at approximately 7 p.m. the applicant was arrested on suspicion of having participated in abduction of two soldiers of the Russian federal forces M. and P. According to the arrest record, the applicant was arrested on 5 April 2007 at 10:40 a.m. On 21 July 2008 the applicant’s wife complained to the prosecutor’s office that her husband’s arrest conducted on 4 April 2007 had not been recorded but to no effect. Besides, the applicant  was unable to confront the two witnesses testifying against him/ He also alleged that he was convicted in the absence of any evidence.

 

Vakhayeva v. Russia, (27368/07)

Judgement date: 10/07/2012
Communicated: 01/08/2010
Lodged: 08/07/2007
Date of violations: 05/10/2001
Location: Chechnya, Roshny-Chu
Representative: SRJI
Violation: Disappearance

Ruslanbek Vakhayev was traveling in his friend’s car on 5 October 2001 when they were stopped at the “Roshnya” checkpoint near Urus-Martan  for an identity check. The servicemen said they were detaining the driver, ordered them out of the car, and began beating the driver. Ruslanbek tried to intervene but the servicemen began beating him as well. The passage through the checkpoint was closed and the servicemen forced the two men into an APC which drove off in the direction of Urus-Martan town center. The applicant has had no news of her son since. Despite several orders by supervising prosecutors to remedy shortcomings in the investigation and a decision from the town court finding the investigators negligent, the investigation made no progress.

 

Yakhita Ilayeva and Others v. Russia, (27504/07)

Judgement date: 10/07/2012
Communicated: 31/08/2010
Lodged: 14/06/2007
Date of violations: 04/07/2004
Location: Chechnya, Assinovskaya
Representative: SRJI
Violation: Disappearance

After midnight on 4 July 2004 a group of Russian federal servicemen, arriving on three APCs (armoured personnel carrier) and a UAZ vehicle, apprehended Inver Ilayev, Rustam Ilayev, Adlan Ilayev and Kazbek Batayev in the Ilayevs' house in the village of Assinovskaya, Chechnya. None of the four men have been seen since. An official criminal investigation was initiated by the Achkhoy-Martan inter-district prosecutor's office but the investigation into their disappearances have not produced any results.

 

Umarovy v. Russia, (2546/08)

Judgement date: 12/06/2012
Communicated: 01/07/2010
Lodged: 18/12/2007
Date of violations: 28/04/2007
Location: Dagestan, Makhachkala
Representative: EHRAC/Memorial
Violation: Disappearance

The case concerns the disappearance of Ramazan Umarov, who was arrested along with two other men who were subsequently charged with illegal possession of firearms. Ramazan had been staying with the two men in their flat in Makhachkala to avoid harassment by the local authorities in Kirov, Dagestan, who had been threatening to put Ramazan behind bars. The applicants received information that their son was being held in Gudermes, Chechnya, but soon all trace of him was lost. The investigation was repeatedly suspended for a failure to identify the perpetrators.

 

Umayevy v. Russia, (47354/07)

Judgement date: 12/06/2012
Communicated: 09/09/2009
Lodged: 23/10/2007
Date of violations: 14/07/2006
Location: Chechnya, Village of Yarash-Mardy
Representative: SRJI
Violation: Disappearance

In the afternoon on 14 July 2006 Vidzha Umayev, Timur Mezhidov and a female family member were stopped at the checkpoint of the federal forces at the Shatoy village. A group of Chechen servicemen, apparently belonging to the battalion Vostok, stood by and watched when Russian servicemen checked their documents and allowed the car to pass. Shortly thereafter the car was stopped in the vicinity of the village of Yarash-Mardy by three Chechen servicemen who had been at the Shatoy check-point. The servicemen ordered everybody out of the car, then put Vidzha and Timur in the backseat and drove away leaving their female relative behind. Vidzha and Timur have not been seen since.

 

Damayev v. Russia, (36150/04)

Judgement date: 29/05/2012
Communicated: 15/01/2008
Lodged: 07/10/2004
Date of violations: 08/04/2004
Location: Chechnya, Village of Rigakhoy
Representative: EHRAC/Memorial
Violation: Indiscriminate bombing

On 8 April 2004 at about 1.30 p.m. two military aircrafts approached the village of Rigakhoy, Chechnya, and started bombing it. The attack lasted for twenty to thirty minutes. An hour later two other military aircrafts bombed the outskirts of the village. Imar-Ali Dumayev heard the explosions and rushed back to his house. On arrival he found his house completely demolished. He found the dead bodies of his wife, Maydat Tsintsayeva, and the five youngest of their six children, Zharadat Damayeva, Dzhaneta Damayeva, Umar-Khadzhi Damayev, Zura Damayeva and Zara Damayeva. A fragment of a bomb with a number was found inside the ruins of the house. The investigations into the deaths has not produced any results.

 

Safiyeva v. Russia, (49379/09)

Judgement date: 03/05/2012
Communicated: 14/10/2010
Lodged: 14/09/2009
Date of violations: 08/09/2009
Location: Dagestan, Makhachkala
Representative: EHRAC/Memorial
Violation: Disappearance

The case concerned the abduction on 8 September 2009 of applicant's husband, SirazhudinShafiyev, by a group of men when he was driving back home from dropping off his children at the kindergarten in Derbent. A number of local residents witnessed the men blocking his car in the road and, after hitting his head with a bludgeon, jumping in the car and driving off with him. He has not been seen since. Theinvestigation into his disappearance, still in progress, has so far failed to identify those responsible.

 

Estamirova v. Russia, (27365/07)

Judgement date: 17/04/2012
Communicated: 03/09/2009
Lodged: 08/06/2007
Date of violations: 05/01/2001
Location: Chechnya, Argun
Representative: SRJI
Violation: Extra-judicial execution

At about 5 p.m. on 5 January 2001 a convoy of 7001th motorised infantry battalion was moving through the town of Argun in Chechnya. About half an hour later, close to the corner of Gudermesskaya Street and Stepnoy Lane, the convoy exchanged heavy fire with unidentified persons. Asradiy Estamirov who happened to be at the corner was wounded in the head and subsequently died. Although over 8 years has passed since the killing, the servicemen who served at the infantry battalion, military column no. 7001, that day have yet to be identified and questioned.

 

Dmitriyevskiy and Others v. Russia, (22646/07)

Communicated: 13/04/2012
Lodged: 27/05/2007
Date of violations: 11/01/2005
Location: Russia, Nizhniy Novgorod
Representative: International Protection Centre
Violation: Freedom of expression

In 2004 Stanislav Dmitriyevskiy who was also the chief editor of a regional monthly newspaper Pravo-Zashchita (Protection of Rights), reprinted two documents from the “Chechenpress” Internet site. The documents were entitled respectively “Address by Akhmed Zakayev, Vice Prime Minister of the Government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, to the Russian People” («Обращение вице-премьера правительства Чеченской Республики Ичкерия Ахмеда Закаева к российскому народу»), and “Address by Maskhadov, President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, to the European Parliament” («Обращение Президента Чеченской Республики Ичкерия Масхадова к Европарламенту»). The authors blamed the Russian authorities for the conflict in the Chechen Republic and criticised them harshly. On 11 January 2005 the prosecutor’s office of the Nizhniy Novgorod Region (“the regional prosecutor’s office”) instituted criminal proceedings under Article 280 (2) of the Russian Criminal Code (public calls to extremist activity through the mass-media) on the basis of a report by their office that the two articles contained public calls to extremist action.

 

Akhmadova v. Russia, (25548/07)

Judgement date: 03/04/2012
Communicated: 03/09/2009
Lodged: 28/05/2007
Date of violations: 19/11/2004
Location: Chechnya, Grozny
Representative: Others
Violation: Extra-judicial execution

Khozh-Akhmed Akhmadov worked as a police officer in the police patrolling unit of the Chechnya MVD. At about 11.30 p.m. on 19 November 2004 Khozh-Akhmed and his colleague were driving their car in the Leninskiy district of Grozny. They were eventually stopped by a large group of servicemen from the OMON (special task unit) of the Chechnya MVD. In the following, the OMON servicemen opened gunfire and Khozh-Akhmed received a number of gunshot wounds. He was taken to Grozny town hospital where he died on 21 November 2004. No one has been held accountable for his killing.

 

Kadirova and Others v. Russia, (5432/07)

Judgement date: 27/03/2012
Communicated: 14/04/2009
Lodged: 21/01/2007
Date of violations: 07/11/2001
Location: Chechnya, Village of Serzhen-Yurt
Representative: SRJI
Violation: Disappearance

At about 5 a.m. on 7 November 2001 five Russian servicemen broke into the house in the village of Serzhen-Yurt where Aset Yakhyayeva and Milana Betilgiriyeva were staying with five other women. The intruders ordered the five women to stay on the coach in one of the rooms and stay quiet. The women heard how the servicemen requested Aset's and Milana's passports and shouted that they had found a gun. When the women dared to exit the room where they were sitting, Aset and Milana were nowhere to be found. They have been missing since.

 

Inderbiyeva and Others v. Russia, (56765/08)

Judgement date: 27/03/2012
Communicated: 18/09/2009
Lodged: 10/07/2008
Date of violations: 09/01/2000
Location: Chechnya, Grozny
Representative: D. Itslayev
Violation: Extra-judicial execution

On 9 January 2000 D. Inderbiyeva went to visit her family in Grozny and found her mother in a state of shock. In the basement, she discovered the two burnt corpses of her sisters, Shema and Shamani Inderbiyeva. They had both been killed by Russian military servicemen who subsequently had set the corpses on fire.

 

Tsakhigov v. Russia, (21511/07)

Communicated: 16/03/2012
Lodged: 09/04/2007
Date of violations: 23/06/2004
Location: Ingushetia, Nazran
Representative: Others
Violation: Torture

The applicant and his acquaintance I. were arrested in the refugee camp near the town of Nazran in the Republic of Ingushetiya on 23 June 2004. Thereafter the authorities brought the applicant and I. to the 6th Department of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Ingushetiya. The police officers repeatedly and continuously tortured both the applicant and I., demanding them to confess to their involvement in the recent attack on Nazran. The applicant complains under Article 3 of the Convention that he was heavily and continuously beaten by the policemen following his arrest on 23 June 2004.

 

Tsuroyev v. Russia, (8372/07)

Communicated: 16/03/2012
Lodged: 11/01/2007
Date of violations: 22/06/2004
Location: Ingushetia, Nazran
Representative: No representative
Violation: Torture

The applicant was arrested shortly after the events of 21 and 22 June 2004 in Nazran. The authorities interviewed the applicant, having forced him to confess by heavily and continuously beating him. According to the applicant, his legal aid lawyer Kh. appointed by the investigation acted against him. The applicant complained under Article 3 of the Convention that he had been ill-treated and coerced into giving false self-incriminating evidence.

 

Tsechoyev against Russia, (20544/07)

Communicated: 16/03/2012
Lodged: 03/05/2007
Date of violations: 02/08/2004
Location: Ingushetia, Magas
Representative: EHRAC/Memorial
Violation: Torture

On 2 August 2004 at around 2 p.m. the applicant was arrested at his place of work, an industrial warehouse of a private company, in the town of Magas of the Republic of Ingushetiya. The applicant was moved to an unidentified location in a building without windows, presumably in a basement. He was requested to explain where he had been in the night of 21 and 22 June 2004. The applicant explained that he had been at his workplace.Thereafter he was severely beaten with rubber truncheons in the area of his liver, kidneys and on his head. The applicant was also subjected to asphyxiation with a plastic bag and ill-treatment with an application of electrical discharges. Relying on Article 3 of the Convention, the applicant complained about multiple episodes of torture and coercion by the State agents.

 

Makhnychev v. Russia, (15357/07)

Communicated: 16/03/2012
Lodged: 12/02/2007
Date of violations: 27/06/2004
Location: Ingushetia, Nazran
Representative: No representative
Violation: Ill-treatment

On 27 June 2004 the applicant was stopped by the police at a checkpoint at the outskirt of the village of Nartkala for a routine ID check. The police officers decided to drive the applicant to a district department of the interior. In the morning of 29 June 2004 the applicant was transported to the building of the Republican Department of the FSB in the town of Magas in the Republic of Ingushetiya. There three officers, two wearing masks and one bareheaded, aged around 50 years old and wearing white short beard, tortured the applicant with electricity. As a result, the applicant confessed in the active participation in the attack on Nazran. The applicant complained under Article 3 of the Convention that he had been seriously ill-treated on multiple occasions by various investigative authorities, which forced him to give self-incriminating evidence.

 
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