The ECHR awarded more than a million euros to the families of stolen residents of Chechnya

The European Court of Human Rights awarded 1 million 168 thousand euros of compensation to the families of twelve men who disappeared from 2000 to 2005 during the counter -terrorist operation of the federal Russian troops in Chechnya.

The ECHR recognized all twelve complaints legitimate, discovering the violation by the Russian authorities of the four articles of the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights: the right to life, the right to freedom, the prohibition of torture and inhuman circulation, as well as the right to an effective investigation.

Among the complaints to the European court are relatives of 34-year-old Khanpash Kakhiev, who was last seen alive on May 14, 2002 in the village of Avruta. According to his mother’s stories, that day the military broke into their house, who seized Kahiev and took away in an unknown direction. Eight years later, his body was found in a mass burial near the place of residence. The Mediazona publication notes that the investigation was suspended many times on the fact of Kakhiev’s death.

In addition, the claims of the Shamaev brothers, who disappeared on February 18, 2001 after a meeting with the Russian military on the Grozny-Shatta highway, and five men from among the refugees, filed in the ECHR-the military took them from the camp in the new atages in the same 2001. The whereabouts of all mentioned people are still unknown.