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The ECHR ordered Russia to pay a resident of Nazran to Lida Gaisanova 60 thousand euros compensation for non -pecuniary damage for the abduction and murder of her daughter - the human rights activist Zarema Gaisanova - during the operation of the security forces, which was personally led by Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov. This was reported by the Committee on Prevention of Torture with reference to the decision of the Strasbourg Court. Also, 3400 euros were recovered from Russia in favor of the applicant to compensate legal costs.

Although the human rights activist was not found, the ECHR considered it the deceased and declared Russia guilty of violation of Article 2 (the right to life) of the European Convention. The court recognized the violation of the other two articles of the Convention: 3 (the prohibition of torture and inhuman circulation - in relation to Lida Gaisanova, who survived the suffering due to the disappearance of the daughter) and 5 (the right to freedom and personal integrity - in relation to the most stolen). The court considered it unnecessary to study the charge of violation of Article 13 (the right to an effective means of legal protection).

40-year-old Gaisanova, an employee of the Danish Council for Refugees, was stolen by security forces on October 31, 2009 from her house in Grozny. The House itself, in which the mother of the human rights activist lived, burned the Kadyrovites.

Lida Gaisanova turned to the police department, but no measures were taken on her application. Subsequently, the security forces, in order to hide their inaction, forged in the documents of the date of registration of the application and survey of the mother of the stolen. The perpetrators of falsifications remained unidentified.

The case of abduction was opened on November 16, 2009. The version about the involvement of the security forces in the crime was one of the main ones.

In February 2010, lawyers of the consolidated mobile group in Chechnya, representing the interests of Lida Gaisanova, filed a petition for the interrogation of Kadyrov as a witness in the case. The investigator satisfied this petition, but Kadyrov was never questioned. The regional head of the Investigative Committee later explained that it was not possible to interrogate the president of Chechnya in connection with his workload. "

As a result, a year later, the SMG achieved the interrogation of Kadyrov, but it was carried out formally and did not give any significant information.

Over time, the possibility of an effective investigation of the case was lost. Then Lida Gaisanova appealed to the Strasbourg court. There, its interests were represented by lawyers of the human rights center "Memorial" and the European Center for the Protection of Human Rights.

As the KPPP lawyer Oleg Khabibrakhmanov noted, representing as a member of the SMG the interests of the mother of the missing, the case of the abduction of Gaisanova at least twice became the subject of discussion between the head of the organization Igor Kalyapin and Kadyrov. Once, the human rights activist said, the discussion was conducted during a personal conversation, the second - during the on -site meeting of the Presidential Council of Human Rights , which took place in Grozny in July 2013. It was then that Kadyrov admitted that he personally planned the operation of the abduction of Gaisanova and led the actions of the security forces.

The head of the Department of International Law Protection of the KPPP Olga Sadovskaya, in turn, noted: "It is very important that the court not only recognized the fact of the disappearance of Zarema Gaisanova, but also presented that she was purposefully stolen during the special operation and then killed. This is a completely different level of responsibility of the authorities." At the same time, the human rights activist added, there is no certainty that someone will be held accountable for this murder.