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A woman who demanded an investigation into her husband's disappearance went missing in Chechnya.
In Chechnya, 26-year-old Amina Avturkhanova disappeared, who sought law enforcement agencies to investigate the disappearance of her husband. This is reported by Novaya Gazeta and BBC Russian Service.
The woman has not been in contact since January 8. According to Novaya Gazeta, that day she was taken from her mother's house in the Nadterechny district of Chechnya. According to lawyer Petr Zaikin, law enforcement officers could have detained her.
Novaya wrote that Avturkhanova could be in the Staromyslovsky District Department of Internal Affairs. Peter Zaikin visited the department, but did not find her there. The BBC has contacted the Interior Ministry for Chechnya, but has not yet received a response.
Avturkhanova's husband Zelimkhan Dzhabaev is mentioned in a list of 27 people who, according to Novaya Gazeta, were killed by security forces on the night of January 26, 2017 in Grozny. He was arrested in December 2016. At first, the police confirmed that he was in the Staropromyslovsky District Department of Internal Affairs, but in January he disappeared.
All this time, Avturkhanova repeatedly received threats, she, like other women whose husbands were detained and disappeared during this period, was repeatedly called to the police. But until the beginning of 2018, she could not get any information about the whereabouts of her husband.
- After an attack on policemen in Grozny in December 2016, dozens of people were detained in Chechnya. According to Novaya Gazeta, at least 27 of them were killed by security forces in January. Nothing was officially announced about their fate.
- According to media reports, some of the detainees were officially detained a few weeks later and accused of terrorist crimes . Relatives of the missing people were forced to write statements that they had left for Syria.
- Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova said that the relatives of people who disappeared in Chechnya were "taken under protection" by law enforcement agencies. to her According , criminal cases were opened in the republic on the disappearance of 18 people from the "New" list.
- The authorities of Chechnya call the publication about the murder of detainees a lie, as well as other reports about murders and torture committed by the security forces in the republic.