07 June 2005, 13:33
Military violates rights in crackdown
In the morning on 6 June, in the process of targeted "clean-ups" in Prigorodnoye, Grozny district, representatives of Russian security agencies, presumably the Main Intelligence Department, abducted five young men: Umar Iliasov, a student at the Chechen State University, Muslim Akayev, Shamsudin Gatsayev, Khalid Zingayev, and Ali Kulayev. This information is provided by the Council of Nongovernmental Organisations.
Eyewitnesses say the military men broke into the houses where the young guys live, seized them without any explanations and brought away without indicating the destination. In doing so, as local residents claim, in a skirmish that broke out the military wounded an officer of the Chechen presidential security service, Ruslan Murtazaliyev, who tried to prevent the abduction.
On the same day, three of the detainees were released. The remaining two were allowed to go on 7 June.
