Woman from Chechnya asserts that power agents took away her flat, where they conducted special operation

Khadish Ibaeva, the owner of the flat in Grozny, where a special operation was conducted on August 18, told rights defenders that power agents took away the documents on the flat, where she had been registered since 2004, and evicted her from the flat.

"Khadish Ibaeva came to the Grozny representative office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) 'Memorial'. She said that she had bought the flat in late 1990s, registered it at the Bureau of Technical Inventory and privatized it. Khadish lives with her brother in the city of Armavir, Krasnodar Territory, and gives the flat in Grozny into rent," says the statement of human rights defenders.

According to the "Memorial", in late July this year Ibaeva met her acquaintance Samak Khizrieva from the village of Novye Atagi, Shali District of Chechnya, who asked her to give the flat into rent to her daughter Indira with her husband Bulat Viskhanov; and Khadish agreed.

On August 18, in the Lenin District of Grozny, during a special operation conducted by Chechen power agents, four suspected members of the armed underground were liquidated. The Chechen MIA asserted that three of them had been searched as the terrorists who prepared a large terror act in the territory of North Ossetia and had been put on the search list by law enforcement bodies.

On August 19 Ibaeva arrived in Grozny and together with Samak Khizrieva went to the district policeman named Adam. He took the women to the Lenin ROVD of Grozny. "All the documents on the flat were taken away by power agents," said Khadish Ibaeva. According to her story, "within ten minutes power agents cancelled my registration in the flat, which I had since April 20, 2004."

"In her application for help Khadish asks to restore her violated rights," said the "Memorial".

So far, no comments have arrived from law enforcement bodies on this occasion.

Let us note here that the bodies of the four suspected members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) shot dead at night on August 18 in Grozny are not given out to relatives. Besides, according to relatives, power agents forbade them to hold commemoration.

An activist of a Chechen NGO also said that policemen moved an ultimatum to relatives of the militants liquidated in Grozny demanding to pay 500,000 roubles to repair the flat that was damage during the assault.