Chechen policemen return 7-year-old boy to his mother

The employees of the Shali ROVD (District Interior Division) have handed over to Elita Magomadova, a native of Chechnya, her seven-year son, who was since 2013 in the family of her ex-husband.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Elita Magomadova complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), stating that Chechnya had violated her right to raise her young son. She said that in 2013, her ex-husband, acting without her knowledge, took away their three year old son, who was born and raised in Moscow, from the kindergarten and away to Grozny. After some time, the ex-husband perished in a road accident, and the boy left with the mother-in-law, a woman of advanced years. The lawyers of the Project "Legal Initiative" are helping Magomadova in defending her interests.

On April 28, one of the lawyers, Olga Gnezdilova, wrote about the return of the boy to mother by Chechen law enforcers in her account on the Facebook.

"Our client Elita Magomadova has received back her… child, who was kept by her mother-in-law and the brother of her deceased ex-husband for 2.5 years, without letting the mother see him. The court judgements were in favour of the mother; the case was communicated to the ECtHR, but the court marshals would not return the boy. The Russian government wrote in the memo that it takes into account local traditions, according to which the child is reared in his father's family," wrote Olga Gnezdilova.

According to her story, in the case of Elita Magomadova policemen have enforced the judgements of Russian courts, without waiting for the ECtHR's decision on the mother's complaint.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.