| NGO Staff Member was Kidnapped in Chechnya |
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| Written by smoc | |||
| Saturday, 07 November 2009 11:58 | |||
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Zarema Gaysanova, 40 years old, a ngo staff member, was kidnapped from her house in Grozny by unknown armed people on October 31. According to members of a non-governmental local Chechen organization which engages in human rights activities, on October 31, a few armed men came to house of Zarema Gaysanova in Darvin Street number 7, in Leninsky district of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. They broke into the house, grabbed Zarema without any explanation, and then Zarema was taken away her to an unknown direction.
Relatives of Zarema couldn’t find any information about her. They accused local gang members of FSB in Chechnya on this tragic event. Then on November 3, they appealed for help to Lyudmila Alekseeva, the head of Moscow-Helsinki Group, who was in Magas city of neighbouring Ingushetia for a conference about terrorism. Until now, there isn’t any information about location and fate of Zarema Gaysanova.
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The US Congress will consider a bill on accounting of Belarusian weapons sales. The bill envisages that the United States' Department of State provides annual reports on Belarus' sales of weapons, and the Russian participation in it, to the US Congress. The US lawmakers expressed concern about military contacts of Minsk with "countries supporting terrorism or refusing to cooperate with US in counter-terrorism operations", Moscow Kommersant newspaper says. In the future, the bill could lead to sanctions not only against Minsk, but against Moscow as well, the experts say. |
