03 September 2004, 18:42
NGO activist abducted in Chechnya
Fatima Gaziyeva, a representative of the interregional peacemaking organization Echo of War, and her husband Ilyas Atayev were abducted by officers of unknown security agencies in Chechnya's Naursky district in the morning of September 3. It is reportedly happened in the village of Kalinovskaya in the Naursky district early in the morning. A group of gunmen in masks and camouflage uniforms broke into the house on Kochubeya Street and took Fatima Gaziyeva and her husband away in an unknown direction without any explanations.
"I don't know all details of the happening yet: who committed this abduction and with what purpose. Fatima Gaziyeva has been working for our organization for 9 years. I was given a call from Grozny in the morning today and was told that Fatima and her husband, Ilyas Atayev, were abducted from their own house in the village of Kalinovskaya at about 5 a.m. No other details are available at the moment," Echo of War director Zaynap Gashayeva, who is in the town of Nalchik now, said to the Caucasian Knot correspondent via phone.
Author: Sultan Abubakarov, CK correspondent Source: Caucasian Knot
