{"id":3004,"date":"2021-06-17T13:07:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T12:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcstaging.co.uk\/ehrac\/?post_type=resources&p=3004"},"modified":"2023-09-26T21:33:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T20:33:10","slug":"abakarova-v-russia-2","status":"publish","type":"case-studies","link":"http:\/\/ehrac.org.uk\/en_gb\/key-ehrac-cases\/abakarova-v-russia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Abakarova v Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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Case No. 16664\/07<\/strong>
\nJudgment date: 15 October\u00a02015<\/strong><\/p>\n

The applicant, Ms. Taisa Abakarova, lived\u00a0with her family in Zakan-Yurt, a village in the\u00a0Achkhoy-Martan district of Chechnya. During\u00a0the Second Chechen War, on 1 February 2000,\u00a0insurgent fighters entered Zakan-Yurt and the\u00a0area was subjected to Russian airstrikes.\u00a0At the time of the events, the applicant\u00a0was eight years old. The following day, the\u00a0applicant\u2019s family left Zakan-Yurt for the village\u00a0of Katyr-Yurt, which was described as a\u00a0\u2018peace zone\u2019. However, on 4 February 2000,\u00a0airstrikes commenced in Katyr-Yurt and the\u00a0family decided to leave. As they were leaving,\u00a0their car was hit by shelling. The applicant\u00a0was hospitalised for extensive burns on her\u00a0face and hands, and fractures to her hip and\u00a0shin bones. After a month in hospital, the\u00a0applicant returned to Zakan-Yurt to live with\u00a0her grandmother. At this time, she found out\u00a0that all other members of her family who fled\u00a0Katyr-Yurt on 4 February 2000 \u2013 her parents,\u00a0her two brothers, her sister and a cousin \u2013 had\u00a0died as a result of the airstrikes.<\/p>\n

You can read the full case summary in the\u00a0Summer 2016 Bulletin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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