23:35, 14 January 2004

Ingush Migration Service puts pressure on members of refugees' Public Council

A group of Ingush Migration Service officials, led by acting head of this organization Akhmed Parchiyev, visited the Satsita camp on January 12. The visitors, accompanied by camp warden Aushev, made their way to the tent that deputy chair of the Public Council of refugees Ramzan Jabrailov lives in.

They told Jabrailov his tent would be dismantled as nobody lives in it, though the Jabrailov family has four members. Later the functionaries paid a visit to the family of Adlan Daudov, who is chair of the Public Council. To all appearances, the functionaries' visit to the camp was aimed at the intimidation of the members of the Council, whose human rights activity utterly dissatisfies local authorities and some other structures.

The evidence of it is the fact that the officials visited no tents in Satsita but those where Daudov and Jabrailov live. Officials of the local migration service have already put pressure on the family of Adlan Daudov before, by threatening them with the eviction from the camp. The alleged reason for the eviction was the Daudovs' not having a residence permit.

Source: Infromation Center of the Council of NGOs