European Court fined Russian Federation for disappearance and death of the Chechen people

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has fined Russia to the sum of 225 000 euro for disappearance and death of habitants of Chechnya, the released court communique informs today. Relatives of the disappeared people repeatedly applied to the Russian judicial bodies but were not satisfied with their decisions. In the claimants' opinion, the local courts failed to investigate properly the circumstances of their relatives' disappearance.

One of the Chechen habitants Adam Khuraev, whose claim was secured by the ECtHR, was detained during a search in his aunt's house in Urus Martane in November 2002. The search was executed by 15 armed people in masks and camouflage. Since then nobody has seen Adam.

Ramzan Suleimanov, his pregnant wife Petimat Aidamirova, their son Ibragim and Petimat's brother Aslanbek came under fires in May 2000, when they were coming back from the Village of Gekhi v Roshna Chu (Гехи в Рошна-Чу) on a truck. According to the plaintiff, Russian military first wounded her relatives and then killed them. Their bodies disappeared and were found three days later within a 100-meter radius of a crater effected by mortar shell.