Abduction in Chechnya: relatives forced to declare the departure of those who disappeared into Syria

The relatives of some of the residents of Chechnya, presumably shot at the end of January at the police base in Grozny, the Kadyrovites forced to write statements about the departure of those who disappeared to Syria. This was reported on Thursday by the BBC.

At the same time, the security forces demanded from relatives to issue internal and foreign passports of the stolen. “I think they just want to take away (documents. - Ed.) So that there is no evidence that he did not leave for Syria,” they noticed to reporters in one of the families.

For other families, the Kadyrovites demanded that their relatives left home and did not return. One of the local residents said, "they" took it away and did not let them out until they signed that their relatives were taken away, but they do not know who took it. " “As if they did not come from the ROVD (and took it. - Ed.), It is not known who took it,” the BBC interlocutor added.

Finally, in some families they said that the Kadyrovites forced to sign their empty sheets. What happened next with these signatures is unknown.

Although the missing, with whose families the journalists communicated, were stolen in December 2016, law enforcement agencies have not yet interviewed any of the relatives who submitted statements about the disappearance. As noted, relatives of the stolen regularly come to the Chechen head of the Investigative Committee, but there they either forced to write a new statement or ask to "come later."

It is also reported that relatives have repeatedly appeared to the building of the regional government. After the next such campaign, one of the local residents said, "several people began to threaten, they said no more, think about loved ones."

I did not receive answers to official requests to the Office of the Investigative Committee of the North Caucasus Federal District and at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya.

After the events of December 17-18, 2016, when several armed attacks on police officers occurred in Grozny, and about 200 people abducted in different parts of Chechnya until the end of January 2017. The detention of citizens were not officially executed - formal decisions on the arrest of some detainees were made only on February 20. These people have charged under article 222 of the Criminal Code (illegal turnover of weapons), and some also under article 208 (participation in illegal armed formation).

Another part of the abducted later was released. Meanwhile, the Kadyrovites killed some people.

Until the beginning of July, only a few murders were reliably known. However, on July 9, the New Gazeta said that on the night of January 26 on the basis of the police regiment of the PPS named after Akhmat Kadyrov shot from 27 to 56 men . During the execution, the publication noted, the first deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Chechnya Alaudinov, the commander of the Terek, the head of the personal security of Ramzan Kadyrov Abuseyd Vismuradov (Patriot), commander of the regiment named after Akhmat Kadyrov Aslan Iraskhanov, as well as the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of those areas in which the dead were registered.

After the execution of the victims of the victims, they took the various cemeteries, including Christian, and buried in hastily dug graves. The journalists managed to find out some places of burial places.