The head of the committee against torture requires to initiate a case against Kadyrov

The chairman of the committee against torture, Igor Kalyapin, demands to institute criminal proceedings against the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov in connection with his statements about the forced eviction from the territory of the region’s families and the destruction of their houses. The human rights activist wrote relevant statements to the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Investigative Committee published on the NGO website.

Kadyrov should be held accountable under Article 286 of the Criminal Code (abuse of authority), Kalyapin believes. In his opinion, the initiatives of the head of Chechnya violate several articles of the Constitution at once, in particular Article 49 on the presumption of innocence, 55 on the restriction of rights and freedoms exclusively by federal law, 27 on freedom of movement, 35 on the right of private property and 40 on the right to housing.

In the Chechen Republic and before the performance of its head, there was a practice of destroying the houses of relatives of militants and providing various types of pressure on them, Kalyapin notes. He reports on 26 cases of arson of the houses of relatives of militants in 2008-2009 and a similar incident in 2012, when the house of the family of the murdered militant Ahmed Bantayev was destroyed. Also, human rights activists have data on illegal expulsion of families. In the summer of 2014, residents of the village of Goy, unanimously decided to expel from the republic the entire family of Hussein Dakhtaev, who committed the murder of the policeman Ahmed Dopaev in the above-ground crossing in the Leninsky district of Grozny.

On December 5, Kadyrov wrote on his Instagram page that their relatives would be responsible for the crimes of terrorists in Chechnya. According to him, members of the families of criminals will be sent from Chechnya, and their houses will be demolished. He also threatened the retirement to the heads of districts and the heads of the police department in the event that at least one person from their territory "illegally picks up weapons and ends up among the bandits."

“In Chechnya, we will not only allow you to become Wahhabists, but even imitate them in clothes or behavior,” the head of Chechnya said.

Kadyrov’s statements quoted a number of federal television channels.