Cases 541 - 560 of 766

Khamzatov and Others v. Russia, (31682/07)

Judgement date: 28/02/2012
Communicated: 27/05/2009
Lodged: 18/06/2007
Date of violations: 23/10/2001
Location: Chechnya, Starye Atagi
Representative: D. Itslayev
Violation: Extra-judicial execution

In October 2001 servicemen of the federal forces were stationed in the outskirts of Starye Atagi. They searched the highway for mines using several IBVs (infantry battle vehicle). At about 7.30 p.m. on 23 October 2001 two villagers who were out in their yard noted two of the IBVs and other vehicles on the opposite side of the road. Shortly thereafter, the villagers witnessed how the servicemen at the highway opened fire at an approaching private car. The shooting continued for about five to ten minutes. The servicemen then started their vehicles, towed one of the IBVs and left. Movsar Khamzatov was later found inside the private car but died from his injuries on the way to hospital.

 

Edilova v. Russia, (14662/07)

Judgement date: 28/02/2012
Communicated: 02/09/2009
Lodged: 13/02/2007
Date of violations: 26/08/2001
Location: Chechnya, Village of Goyty
Representative: D. Itslayev
Violation: Disappearance

At about 6 p.m. on 26 August 2001 a blue UAZ vehicle arrived at the house of the Edilov family in the village of Goyty and a group of military servicemen got off. Some servicemen rushed into the house and shortly thereafter led out Abdula Edilov in front of the neighbors. They put Abdula in the car and drove to the nearby checkpoint of the Russian federal forces. The car stopped at the checkpoint for a while and then continued towards Grozny. Abdula´s family has had no news from him since.

 

Asukhanova v. Russia, (53322/11)

Communicated: 06/02/2012
Lodged: 04/08/2011
Date of violations: 10/06/2002
Location: Chechnya, Urus-Martan
Representative: No representative
Violation: Disappearance

At the material time the town of Urus-Martan was under curfew; it was surrounded by military checkpoints. A number of law-enforcement agencies, including the military commander’s office, were operating in the settlement. At about 7 a.m. on 10 June 2002 a group of ten to fifteen armed servicemen in camouflage uniforms and masks arrived at the applicant’s house in a khaki-coloured UAZ minivan with registration plate which contained numbers ‘23-75’. The intruders, who spoke unaccented Russian, took the applicant’s husband Magomed outside and put him in the minivan saying that they were taking him to the military commander’s office. Then the servicemen drove away in the northern direction. The applicant has not seen her husband since his abduction on 10 June 2002.

 

Baskhanova v. Russia, (25088/11)

Communicated: 06/02/2012
Lodged: 09/01/2009
Date of violations: 06/01/2004
Location: Chechnya, Achkhoy-Martan
Representative: No representative
Violation: Disappearance

At about 3 a.m. on 6 January 2004 a group of about fifteen camouflaged and masked servicemen arrived at the Baskhanov's house in two armoured personnel carriers (APCs) and took away the applicant’s husband. The applicant has not seen Mr Ruslan Baskhanov ever since.

 

Sambiyeva v. Russia, (20205/07)

Judgement date: 08/11/2011
Communicated: 11/03/2009
Lodged: 20/03/2007
Date of violations: 13/08/2003
Location: Chechnya, the village of Tevzani
Representative: SRJI
Violation: Disappearance

On 13 August 2003 Said-Emin Sambiyev and Mr V. M., both working at the Security Service of the Chechen President, were riding a taxi to the village of Makhety. Their taxi was stopped in the village of Tevzani at the checkpoint manned by military unit no. 28337-A. Both men were taken to the location of 45th regiment of the Airborne Forces in the village of Khatuni. On 25 August 2003 Mr V. M. was released. He described how he and Said-Emin had been detained in two separate pits not far from each other and that Said-Emin had been severely beaten. Said-Emin was never released and remains missing. The investigation into his detention and disappearance has not yielded any results.

 

Utsmiyeva and Others v. Russia, (31179/11)

Communicated: 07/11/2011
Lodged: 06/05/2011
Date of violations: 10/06/1996
Location: Chechnya, Grozny
Representative: MATERI CHECHNI
Violation: Disappearance

On 10 June 1996 at around midnight an APC accompanied by a convoy of military vehicles arrived in Grozhy, Chechnya. A large number of masked and camouflaged servicemen armed with machineguns got out of the vehicles, cordoned off the area and broke into Mr Utsmiyev’s flat. The servicemen spoke unaccented Russian. They led Isa Utsmiyev, Larisa Ansarova and Angela Ansarova outside, put them in the APC and drove away. On the following days the first applicant unsuccessfully complained about the abduction to a local military commander’s office and other law-enforcement agencies. The applicants have not seen their three relatives since their abduction on 10 June 1996.

 

Uspanova v. Russia, (30146/11)

Communicated: 07/11/2011
Lodged: 19/04/2011
Date of violations: 15/07/2002
Location: Chechnya, Sernovodsk
Representative: No representative
Violation: Disappearance

On 15 July 2002 at around 2 a.m. a group of masked and camouflaged men armed with machineguns broke into the applicant’s house in Sernovodsk, and took Mr Shadit Magomayev away. The intruders used four UAZ vehciles, two VAZ cars and a GAZ-24 lorry. According to witnesses, the vehicles departed in the direction of the Znamenskoye settlement. A paper pass assigned to UAZ-3962 with the registration number ‘C XX 95 rus’ was found on the crime scene afterwards. The document provided unhindered passage through checkpoints and was signed by a local military commander. Five other men, Mr A. Tazuyev, Mr A. Simonenko, Mr A. Israilov, Mr Kh. Gubashev and Mr M. Gazaliyev, were abducted from neighbouring houses on the same night. Mr Gazaliyev was subsequently released. The applicant has not seen Mr Shadit Magomayev since his abduction on 15 July 2002.

 

Kharayeva and Others v. Russia, (2721/11)

Communicated: 07/11/2011
Lodged: 08/12/2010
Date of violations: 27/07/2004
Location: Chechnya, Khankala
Representative: MATERI CHECHNI
Violation: Disappearance

On 27 July 2004 at around 3 or 4 a.m. a group of Russian masked and camouflaged servicemen armed with machineguns arrived at Andarbek Bugayev’s house and broke in. They asked about firearms and drugs in unaccented Russian and searched the premises. Then they put Andarbek in one of their two UAZ vehicles and drove away. Later in the morning Andarbek’s relatives found his passport on the floor. The same night the servicemen broke into another house in the area. A witness stated that they had introduced themselves as patrol officers conducting an identity check. The applicants have had no news of Andarbek Bugayev since his abduction on 27 July 2004.

 

Tashukhadzhiyev v. Russia, (33251/04)

Judgement date: 25/10/2011
Communicated: 11/03/2009
Lodged: 05/08/2004
Date of violations: 19/02/1996
Location: Chechnya, Berkat-Yurt,
Representative: Others
Violation: Disappearance

During the first counter-terrorist campaign in Chechnya, Elbek Tashukhadzhiyev was working as a driver of a URAL petrol tanker lorry. On 9 February 1996 he was driving his lorry on the outskirt of Berkat-Yurt, Chechnya. Next to the village, in the vicinity of the Russian military checkpoint, he was stopped by a group of military intelligence officers under the command of Major Alexander Zavgorodniy. The group belonged to military unit no. 74614 of 205th brigade of the Internal Troops of the Russian Ministry of the Interior. After that Elbek disappeared. It is unclear whether the investigation into the murder and/or the disappearance of the applicant’s son has been completed.

 

Tkhyegepso and Others v. Russia, (44387/04, 2513/05, 24753/05, 34770/07, 37169/07, 54527/07, 21648/08, 42081/08, 56022/08, 59873/08, 671/09 and 4555/09)

Judgement date: 25/10/2011
Lodged: 19/10/2004
Date of violations: 05/11/2003
Location: Kabardino-Balkaria, Nalchik
Representative: No representative
Violation: Fair trial

On 05/11/2003 the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkariya found in the applicants’ favour against various State bodies. Mr Tkhyegepso and Ms Afaunova were awarded compensation for non-pecuniary damage caused by unlawful actions of a State body. The applicants took various steps to obtain execution of the judgments. However, the judgments remain unenforced to date.

 

Beksultanova v. Russia, (31564/07)

Judgement date: 27/09/2011
Communicated: 27/05/2009
Lodged: 16/07/2007
Date of violations: 01/10/2004
Location: Chechnya, Village of Achkhoy-Martan
Representative: SRJI
Violation: Disappearance

On the morning of 2 October 2004, an OMON officer arrived at the applicant’s house and asked her son to go with him in order to give testimony that he was not involved in any terrorist activities. Timur was under investigation at the time and on 7 October was due to appear for an interrogation, but planned to deny the charges. Timur left with the OMON officer. Subsequently, witnesses reported seeing Timur and the OMON officer arrive at a crossroads surrounded by a convoy of APCs and a large group of servicemen. After checking their identity cards, the servicemen began beating Timur and then shot him in the thigh and the shoulder before dragging him into one of the APCs and driving off. He has not been seen since.  The applicant consistently appealed to the authorities to open an investigation into her son’s disappearance, but a separate criminal case into his abduction was never opened.

 

Shalayeva v. Russia, (38770/10)

Communicated: 07/09/2011
Lodged: 09/06/2010
Date of violations: 09/10/2001
Location: Chechnya, Alkhazurovo
Representative: No representative
Violation: Disappearance

On 9 October 2001 the Russian federal forces carried out a sweeping-up operation in the settlement of Alkhazurovo. At around 8 p.m. a group of armed servicemen in camouflage uniforms broke into the applicant’s family house. They introduced themselves as servicemen from the military commander’s office and took away the applicant’s brother-in-law Mr Salamu Shalayev. On the following morning another Alkhazurovo resident, Mr Kh. Sugaipov, was arrested at home by the same servicemen. The applicant claimed that the servicemen had brought both the men to the former cattle farm on the outskirts of Alkhazurovo, where the military units were stationed. The applicant has not seen Mr Salamu Shalayev since his abduction on 9 October 2001.

 

Khashuyeva v. Russia, (25553/07)

Judgement date: 19/07/2011
Communicated: 14/09/2009
Lodged: 17/05/2007
Date of violations: 01/08/2003
Location: Chechnya, Shali
Representative: O. Sadovskaya
Violation: Extra-judicial execution
Ill-treatment

At about 6 p.m. on 1 August 2003 eleven years old Mamed Bagalayev was playing with his siblings in the yard outside their house in Shali when a group of military servicemen arrived on an APC and a GAZ-53 lorry. The servicemen got out of the vehicles and opened gunfire at the buildings around. It appeared that they were conducting a special operation. The children ran to take shelter in a hut in the yard. Inside the hut, Mamed noticed that he was bleeding and fell unconscious. The servicemen walked into the hut and searched it but refused to help Mamed. When the shooting stopped about an hour later Mamed had already died from his wounds.

 

Velkhiyev and Others v. Russia , (34085/06)

Judgement date: 05/07/2011
Communicated: 16/03/2009
Lodged: 15/08/2006
Date of violations: 20/07/2004
Location: Ingushetia, Village of Barsuki
Representative: EHRAC/Memorial
Violation: Torture
Extra-judicial execution

At approximately 8.30 a.m. on 20 July 2004 a group of about thirty armed servicemen arrived at a house in the village of Barsuki, Ingushetia. They searched the house and detained the two brothers Bekhan and Bashir Velkhiyev. Bekhan and Bashir were taken to the the Organised Crime Unit at the Ministry of the Interior of Ingushetia in Nazran. They were brought to an interrogation room where several officers started beating them. Eventually, they were separated and taken to different rooms. The officers continued beating Bekhan and subjected him to electric shocks. On the following day, Bekhan was released and told that his brother Bashir had died. A forensic report stated that Bashir had multiple injuries caused by hard blunt objects. The injuries had eventually caused a cardiovascular collapse. On 28 March 2007 the Nazran District Court acquitted an officer of the Organised Crime Unit at the Ministry of the Interior of Ingushetia who had served on 20 July 2004 from all charges relating to the ill-treatment of the brothers.

 

Koshkarov v. Russia, (10603/08)

Communicated: 04/07/2011
Lodged: 16/01/2008
Date of violations: 16/07/2003
Location: Chechnya
Representative: Others
Violation: Death due to negligence

On 13 July 2003 the son of applicant Vasiliy Koshkarov  and other officers from the military unit of federal forces in Chechnya had been sent to mow grass in a field. Maps dating back to 1999 indicated that it was a minefield and there were warning boards which said that the field was mined. No mines had been however detected by a mine detector. In the evening a mine had exploded killing the applicant’s son and wounding two officers. On 11 September 2003 the applicant’s son’s body was released to his family. On 12 September 2003 he was buried. In November 2003 Vasiliy Koshkarov  complained to the military prosecutor’s office about the belated notification of his son’s death and belated release of the body. He further asked the prosecutor to clarify the circumstances around his son’s death. By letters of 15 June 2005 and 9 August 2007 the prosecutor’s office informed the applicant that the investigation was pending without attaining any tangible results.

 

Isayev and Others v. Russia, (43368/04)

Judgement date: 21/06/2011
Communicated: 21/09/2007
Lodged: 15/11/2004
Date of violations: 09/05/2004
Location: Chechnya, Village of Goy-Chu, Urus-Martan District
Representative: EHRAC/Memorial
Violation: Torture
Extra-judicial execution

In the evening of 9 May 2004 a group of armed men in two UAZ vehicles arrived at the Isayevs' home in the village of Goy-Chu. The servicemen searched the house, handcuffed Zelimkhan Isayev and took him with them. Zelimkhan was placed in the detention facility of the ROVD. A day later his relatives were told that he was in poor health. On 13 May Zelimkhan told his brothers that the servicemen had beaten him and used electrical current and cigarrettes to obtain a confession. On 16 May he was taken to a hospital in Nazran where he died shortly after his arrival. His death was caused by acute renal insufficiency, pulmonary oedema as well as by blunt injuries of the abdomen and chest. A criminal investigation was opened but concluded that there were no grounds for prosecution of the FSB servicemen.

 

Nakayev v. Russia, (29846/05)

Judgement date: 21/06/2011
Communicated: 09/09/2008
Lodged: 27/06/2005
Date of violations: 04/12/1999
Location: Chechnya, Village of Martan-Chu
Representative: D. Itslayev
Violation: Indiscriminate bombing

Between 11 a.m. And 12 p.m. on 4 December 1999 Russian federal forces subjected the area around the village of Martan-Chu, Chechnya to shelling launched by rocket systems stationed 10 km away from the village. Ibragim Nakayev was standing in a friend's yard when a projectile landed on a car parked next to him. Ibragim recieved numerous splinter wounds and had to undergo several rounds of medical treatment. Despite his request to open a criminal investigation, it is unclear whether an investigation was ever instituted.

 

Giriyeva and Others v. Russia, (17879/08)

Judgement date: 21/06/2011
Communicated: 18/09/2009
Lodged: 27/03/2008
Date of violations: 09/01/2002
Location: Chechnya, Village of Avtury
Representative: SRJI
Violation: Disappearance

In the afternoon of 9 January 2002 Isa Aygumov and several neighbors were sawing firewood in the Aygumov family's yard in the village of Avtury. The village was at this time under full control of the Russian federal forces. At about 4 pm. two UAZ vehicles arrived at the Aygumov’s gate. A large number of servicemen got out and ran into the yard where they separated into smaller groups. Some searched the house while others detained Isa. They then put Isa in one of the vehicles before driving off towards Shali. Isa has not been seen since.

 

Makharbiyeva and Others v. Russia, (26595/08)

Judgement date: 21/06/2011
Communicated: 18/09/2009
Lodged: 23/05/2008
Date of violations: 24/03/2001
Location: Chechnya, Gekhi
Representative: SRJI
Violation: Disappearance

In the afternoon of 24 March 2001 Adam Makharbiyev and his two cousins I.M. and L.M. drove from the village of Chernorechye to Gekhi. They were stopped at a checkpoint manned by OMON officers from Yaroslavl. The servicemen detained all three men. The cousins were subsequently taken to the district military commander’s office in Urus-Martan where they were separated. L.M. was released on the following day and I.M. was released a day later. The district military commander later confirmed that Adam had been detained but Adam was never released and is still missing.

 

Koboladze and Others v. Russia, (50135/09)

Communicated: 16/06/2011
Lodged: 17/09/2009
Date of violations: 08/11/2008
Location: South Ossetia, Thskhinvali
Representative: SRJI
Violation: Ill-treatment

The applicants complain under Articles 3, 5, 8 and 13 of the Convention.

 
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