{"id":2150,"date":"2015-09-22T22:08:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T21:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcstaging.co.uk\/ehrac\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2021-05-21T17:38:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T16:38:32","slug":"ten-cases-of-disappearances-in-chechnya-communicated-to-the-russian-government","status":"publish","type":[30],"link":"http:\/\/ehrac.org.uk\/en_gb\/ten-cases-of-disappearances-in-chechnya-communicated-to-the-russian-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten cases of disappearances in Chechnya communicated to the Russian Government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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On 22 September 2015, the European Court of Human Rights\u00a0communicated a group of cases relating to the alleged abduction of ten men<\/a>\u00a0by State agents in the Chechen Republic between 2000 and 2004 to the Russian Government. The\u00a0European Human Rights Advocacy Centre<\/a>\u00a0(EHRAC), based at\u00a0Middlesex University<\/a>, and\u00a0Memorial Human Rights Centre<\/a>\u00a0are representing the applicants in one of these cases,\u00a0Sultan Magomedov and others v Russia<\/em>, which is brought by seven family members of Usman Magomadov.<\/p>\n

Mr Magomadov was a resident of Mesker-Yurt, a village in Chechnya. On 28 March 2002, he was on his way to work in the neighbouring town of Argun, when he was stopped by a group of four armed military servicemen. He was pulled from his car and forced into an armoured personnel carrier, which then drove off towards Argun. His wife witnessed the abduction along with her relative and followed the military vehicle towards Khankala, the main base of the Russian military in Chechnya. She was informed several days later that Mr Magomadov was being detained in the Grozny department of the Federal Security Service. His whereabouts remain unknown.<\/p>\n

In their application to the European Court, Mr Magomadov\u2019s family \u2013 his three brothers, wife and three children \u2013 allege that his abduction is a violation of the right to life, under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and that the circumstances indicate that the perpetrators had been State agents. Under the procedural limb of Art. 2, they further argue that no effective investigation took place. They also allege a violation of the right to liberty (Art. 5 ECHR) with regards to the unacknowledged detention of Mr Magomadov. His family argue that they have suffered severe mental distress as a result of the authorities\u2019 indifference to Mr Magomadov\u2019s abduction and disappearance, and the State\u2019s failure to conduct an effective investigation, in violation of Art.3 ECHR. Finally, they argue a lack of an effective remedy under Art. 13 ECHR in respect of their complaints under Arts. 2, 3 and 5.<\/p>\n

A further nine applications regarding disappearances of men in Chechnya, all alleging similar violations to those outlined above, have been joined to\u00a0Sultan Magomedov and others v Russia<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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