Two Residents of Chechnya Have Been Taken Hostage

According to a story on the Kavkaz-Uzel website, two peaceful residents of the Sunzha district in Chechnya were taken hostage by mobsters from the puppet regime.

Kavkaz-Uzel’s source said that Kadyrovites in the Sunzha district organized punishment operations and abducted two residents from the village of Assinovska.

The puppet regime claims that both of the hostages provided food between January and February 2010 for a Chechen mujahedeen group under the command of Aslan Dzeytov.

The names and locations of the hostages are unknown at this time.

New Hostage Incidents

According to the local community, armed bandits from Kadyrov’s puppet regime have abducted two residents of the Achkoi-Martan district in Chechnya.

On October 5, Kadyrovites came to the Samashki village of Achkoi-Marta and broke into a house. A19-year old local resident was taken hostage. The relatives of the hostage said that they do not know why he was taken away. The puppets claimed that the young man was a member of one of the Chechen mujahedeen groups that operates in the Achkoi-Martan area.

On the same day, a 28-year old local man was stopped at a check point by Kadyrov’s gangsters. The armed bandits stopped him to check his papers, and then immediately ordered him to get out of the car. Kadyrovites proceeded to take him away to an unknown location. His relatives said that puppets are accusing him of providing food for the Chechen mujahedeen groups.

The fates of both hostages remain unknown.

Another Two Residents of Chechnya Taken Hostage

According to local sources, armed bandits from the puppet regime in Chechnya have abducted two more peaceful civilians during last two days.

On October 6, Kadyrovites took a 33-year old male resident, who is from the village of Alkhan-Kala, near Grozny, hostage. The puppets claimed that their hostage is a former mujahed, who was active in 1996.

On October 7, in the village of Kerla-Yurt in the Grozny district, a local resident was taken hostage by a group of Kadyrovites. Relatives of the hostage said that after brutal torture, he was forced to confess to a fabricated claim that he kept ammunition and weapons for a Chechen mujahedeen group between 2003 and 2004.

The hostage’s fates are unknown at this time.

Terror on Civilians does not Stop

According to local sources, Russian invaders and their collaborators in Chechnya and Ingushetia continue to persecute the innocent civilian population.

On October 8, early in the morning, members of the regional FSB in Ingushetia conducted a special operation in village of Yandare in the Nazran district. They searched a house on Kashagulgova Street and abducted a 23-year old resident whose name is Islam Mikailovich Khashagulgov.

On October 9, at around 5:00pm local time, there was an explosion at a private home in the city of Urus-Martan, Chechnya. As a result, two young men died at the scene, and another was seriously injured. The puppets claim that they were building a home-made bomb and it exploded.

On October 10, members of the puppet Kadyrov’s armed bandit group abducted a 20-year old man in the city of Argun, Chechnya. The young man was a peaceful resident of Argun, but the Kadyrovites abducted him on Shosseiyna Street where he lives and put him in a detention facility. The puppets claim that their hostage was preparing to join the Chechen mujahedeen.

On October 12, a 42 year old resident of the village of Guni in the Vedeno district of Chechnya was abducted by the puppet Kadyrov’s mobsters. The puppet’s sources claim that in August of 2009, the hostage provided food to one group of Chechen mujahedeen who are operating in the Vedeno district.

In the same day, a 51-year old man was abducted in the city of Argun by Kadyrovites. The puppet’s claim that in 2000, he was collecting information about the locations and movements of the Russian occupation forces, and then passing the information on to the Chechen mujahedeen.

Human Rights Activist Beaten in Chechnya

According to the website Kavkaz-Uzel, on the evening of October 17, mobsters from Kadyrov’s puppet regime beat up a human rights defender and her 18-year old daughter in the Avtorkhanovsky (formerly Leninsky) district of Grozny.

A staff member from the “Union of NGOs (Soyuz Nepravitelstvennix Orgaanizatsiy)” called the correspondent from the Kavkaz-Uzel website and informed them about the event. “On the evening of October 17, four armed men in camouflage uniforms, which are worn by Kadyrov’s forces, came to the apartment of a human rights defender who works for the ‘Human Rights Center of Chechen Republic (Pravozasitniy Tsentr Chechensky Respubliki)’. While two of them waited at the entrance, two others entered the flat and severely beat the human rights defender and her daughter. The attackers did not identify themselves and did not give any reasons for the attack. They simply threatened the victims with physical harm. The attackers also smashed the activist’s telephones before they left the scene,” said the staff member from the NGO who asked not to be identified.

This is not the first act of aggression toward human rights defenders in Chechnya. Earlier cases had many of them being threatened and some of them being beaten. Also recall that last year in Chechnya, the human rights defenders Natalya Estemirova, Zarema Sadulayeva and Alik Dzhabrailov were been kidnapped and killed. The perpetrators and instigators of these crimes are still unknown.

A New Hostage Case

According to occupation media sources, a resident of Achkoi-Martan was taken hostage by the puppet Kadyrov’s gangsters.

On October 17, mobsters from the puppet regime in Chechnya stopped a car at a checkpoint in the center of the district of Achkoi-Martan. An 18-year old man was taken abducted on the suspicion the he has been collaborating with the Chechen mujahedeen.

The puppets claim that their hostage confessed to providing equipment and food to the mujahedeen during the month of September 2010, in a forest near the village of Samashki.

In other news, on October 18 in Ingushetia, around 200 people gathered on the Kavkaz federal highway spontaneously. Two “Kamaz” vehicles blocked the roads leading toward the city of Magas in both directions. The relatives and neighbors of Ali-Yurt resident, Dzhamaleiyla Musaevich Gagiev born in 1967, who was kidnapped by death squads on October 14, demanded his location find and release. The Ingush opposition leader Magomed Khazbiev also attended the protest. The people shouted for an end to state terror and kidnappings in the republic.

Ingush Civilians Disappearing

According to the Human Rights Center “Memorial”, a young Ingush civilian was abducted from his house in Nazran, and an Ingush disappeared in Moscow.

On October 29, 2010 around 1 a.m. in the town of Nazran in Republic of Ingushetia allegedly officers of unidentified power structures abducted Zurab Idrisovich Tseloev (Tsoloev), born in 1985, from his own house (Khvoinaya str., 37).

According to Elizaveta Tseloeva, mother of the abducted, around 10 armed people in masks and camouflage stormed into their house. They neither introduced themselves nor showed any documents; searched the house illegally; spoke Russian without accent. During the search the officers turned the house upside down. Car VAZ-2107 owned by Tseloevs was damaged. Nothing illegal was found. Mobile phones, passports of Zurab Tseloev and his wife Aminat Malsagova, born in 1994, were taken away from the house.

According to Malsagova, when the unknown officers burst into the house, Zurab, frightened, got outside through the window. There he was seized, beaten up and being held undressed on the ground while the search in the house was being carried out. After the end of the search the unknown officers took Zurab with them not allowing him to put clothes on. They did not explain why he was detained and where he would be taken. The relatives tried to clear that up but they were sworn up at, threatened with arms and barred from leaving the house.

Zurab Tseloev’s relatives addressed Public Prosecutor’s office of the Republic of Ingushetia, head of the OVD of the Nazran’ district and president of the Republic of Ingushetia with written statements asking to name the reason of the detention and whereabouts of Zurab. They also applied verbally to the Department of FSB of the Russian Federation on the Republic of Ingushetia where they were said that the officers of the Department had not detained Tseloev. They also addressed human rights organizations with the statements.

Elizaveta Tseloeva says that previously her son used to be called for talks by the officers of OVD on Nazran and Nazran district. Each time after such talk they let him go. In 2008, Artur Tseloev (Tsoloev), Zurab’s brother, died. According to the official version, he died while planting a fougasse in the center of Nazran. After this case Zurab Tseloev must have been registered at police as an unreliable. Relatives still do not know the reasons why Zurab had been detained.

On November 1, 2010 in the city of Moscow in unexplained circumstances Ingushetia resident Alikhan Umarbekovich Ortskhanov, born in 1984, disappeared.

Two weeks ago he came to the capital and got a job in a private security firm, worked on the facility with construction technique (Shirokaya str., 19, bld. 1, bld. 1). He lived there temporarily. The last time when the relatives contacted him by phone he was in the facility. When work superintendent left for dinner he saw Alikhan. After that Ortskhanov disappeared.

Around 3 p.m. Alikhan’s mobile phone was switched off. After that he did not contact anyone. As for November 2, the relatives did not know anything about the whereabouts of Ortskhanov.

On November 2, Alikhan’s brother Bekhan Ortskhanov addressed HRC Memorial with written applications. He says that Alikhan never had problems with law enforcement authorities but in October 2010 his familiar Aliskhan Kuzikov was killed by FSB officers during the special operation in the village of Surkhakhi of Nazran district in Ingushetia. The disappearance of Alikhan Ortskhanov might be related to this event somehow. Bekhan Ortskhanov asks to help find his brother.

New Hostage Case in Chechnya

According to local sources, armed bandits from the puppet regime in occupied Chechnya have abducted three more Chechen civilians.

On October 29th and 31st, Kadyrovites organized punishment operations in the city of Argun as well as the village of Agishty in the Shali district. As a result, a resident of Argun and a local resident from Agishty were taken away to unknown areas. Later, both of the hostages were found in a building which houses one of the puppet’s police departments. They were forced to sign confessions claiming that they provided food and aid for the Chechen mujahedeen. They refused, but after brutal torture, they had no choice but to sign any papers presented to them by the Kadyrovites. Puppet authorities immediately announced that they captured two aiders of the Chechen mujahedeen, who provided food between 1999 and 2001.

On November 1st, a local resident of the Gudermes district was abducted by armed Kadyrovites. According to preliminary data, the hostage is a 30 year old man who was living in the village of Novy Enginoy, which is within the Gudermes district. The puppets accused him of collecting information about the Russian occupation forces as well as storing the mujahedeen’s ammunition and weapons at his home.

Another Chechen Civilian Abducted

Local sources report that a Chechen civilian has been abducted.

On November 3rd, Russian occupation forces and their local collaborators organized a joint punishment operation in the Novoposelenskaya section of Chechnya’s capital, Grozny. As a result, a 42-year old local male resident was taken hostage. It has been reported that the hostage was tortured.

The puppet sources claim that their hostage has actively provided aid to a mobile Chechen mujahedeen group since last summer.

Kadyrov’s Special Unit Beat a Man and Raped His Wife

The website Kavkaz Center has reported that armed bandits from Kadyrov’s puppet regime attacked a local resident’s house a few days ago and looted it.

According to the news, a few days ago, during the night, some Kadyrovites attacked the house of a 22-year old local resident, in the village of Kotar-Yurt in Chechnya’s Achkoi-Martan district. During the attack the young man was severely beaten and his pregnant wife was raped. The woman is reportedly close to death in an intensive care unit now and the house has been demolished. Reports say that Kadyrov’s gangsters demanded that the couple give them money, calling it compensation for saving the house from being burnt, which was recently bought by his parents.

Local residents confirmed that the young man, whose name is not being publicized, has never been political or had relations with the mujahedeen. He also has never been in combat. The obvious reason that the Kadyrovites attacked him is simple robbery. Moreover, during the robbery, the Kadyrovites did not hide who they were. The villagers knew.

Another Abduction in Chechnya

The website Daymohk.net has reported that the puppet Kadyrov’s gangsters abducted a civilian in Chechnya.

According to the news, Kadyrovites abducted a local resident in the city of Gudermes on the evening of November 7th. The hostage was forced to sign a fabricated confession which stipulates that he provided food and accommodations for a member of the Chechen mujahedeen who was killed in 2008.

The list of imagined enemies of the puppet regime in Chechnya is increasing on a daily basis.

Abductions and Extrajudicial Punishments Continue

Russian state terrorism against the Chechen and Ingush people has not ceased. Recently, a civilian was abducted, another one was killed and a missing man was found in prison.

On the night of November 9th, a resident of the Achkoi-Martan district of Chechnya was abducted by gangsters from the puppet regime. 24-year old Khadzhimurat Akhtokhanov was stopped on the “Kavkaz Highway” at the intersection of Samashki and Achkoi-Martan, by a group of Kadyrovites. He was forcibly taken from the car and driven away in an unknown direction. Relatives of the hostage are trying to find his whereabouts and have appealed for help from human rights organizations. His fate is still unknown.

On November 9th, a corpse was found in city of Malgobek, Ingushetia. It was learned that the body, with head injuries, is of 45-year old local resident, Musa Belkharoev.

According to the Human Rights Center “Memorial”, Alikhan Umarbekovich Ortskhanov, an Ingush youth who disappeared on November 1st in Moscow, was found in Lefertovo prison (Lefortovskaya Tyurma) in Moscow.

Bekhan Ortskhanov, Alikhan’s brother, went to Moscow immediately to investigate the unexplained disappearance of his brother. He appealed to of all the hospitals, morgues and police stations, but he could not find any trace of him. On the evening of November 8th, someone who introduced himself as a FSB investigator, told Bekhan, “Your brother asked us to call you and notify you about his arrest”.

On November 9th, Bekhan met with the investigator. He said that Alikhan Ortskhanov was a suspect in a criminal case under Article 208 part 2 (participation in an illegal armed formation) and Article 222 part 3 (trafficking weapons by an organized group) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. He was accused of committing crimes in the territories of Ingushetia and North Ossetia.

Alikhan has been missing since November 1st, but the investigator claimed that Alikhan was arrested on November 3rd. They have provided him with a pro-bono lawyer and say that Alikhan confessed to everything. Responding to a question by Bekhan about why they did not inform his family about the detention of Alikhan immediately, an FSB officer responded that it is all about the “interests of the investigation”.

New Hostage Case in Chechnya

Local sources reported that on November 11th, two civilians were abducted by mobsters from the puppet regime in Russian occupied Chechnya.

The gangsters of the puppet Kadyrov organized a punishment operation in the village of Verkhniy (Upper) Naur in the Nadterechny district of Chechnya. Kadyrovites abducted a 22-year old man. The hostage endured various barbaric torture methods and was forced to sign a fabricated confession. The puppets claim that their hostage was recruiting young people for Chechen mujahedeen.

Another hostage case occurred in the city center of Achkoi-Martan. Kadyrovites abducted a 24 year old man who was accused of providing food for a Chechen mujahedeen group, which operates in the Achkoi-Martan district.

Terror Against Ordinary Civilians Continues

Local sources and regional websites have reported that three ordinary civilians were abducted in Chechnya over the last three days.

On November 15th, a 50 year old man, who is a local resident of the Achkoi-Martan district in Chechnya, was abducted by gang members from Kadyrov’s puppet regime. The man was beaten and threatened. The puppet sources claim that he was arrested as a kidnapping suspect, but after the interrogation he was released. The fate of kidnapped man is unknown.

However, the website Kavkaz Uzel reported that on November 14th, the Kadyrovites beat and then abducted two young men in the city of Urus-Martan, Chechnya.

“In the afternoon of November 14th, my friend and I were in the auto market in the center of Urus-Martan. Some Kadyrovites in uniforms showed up in two Uazax cars. They started to talk with the owners of the cars. Then they saw a car which had tinted windows. They asked to remove the tints immediately. The young man told them that he was not the owner of the car so he could not do it. Upon hearing this, one Kadyrovite hit his face and a fight broke out between them. As a result, several Kadyrovites beat the man,” said Salman I. who was an eyewitness.

“When the noise began, people started to run there to stop them. The Kadyrovites fired into the air and shouted that no one would come near them. Ten to twelve Kadyrovites beat the two young men and nobody was allowed to stop them. Then they rushed them into a car and took off,” said another eyewitness, local resident Ruslan Ch.

The puppets claim that using cars with tinted windows is forbidden. But some residents ignore this rule and provoke the Kadyrovites. However, another local resident Ruslan Sh. said something different. “To have such kind of windows isn’t prohibited anywhere in Russia. If there is a rule, Kadyrovites must also obey it, but they drive tinted window cars. This rule is just for ordinary citizens,” said Ramzan Sh.

Aushev’s Relative Kidnapped in Ingushetia

The website Daymohk.net reported that a relative of Maksharip Aushev has been kidnapped in Ingushetia.

On the morning of November 16th, around 10:00am local time, a resident of the village of Surkhahi, Ilez Aushev, who is related to the well-know Ingush dissident Maksharip Aushev who was killed a year ago, was kidnapped.

In the morning, Ilez left his house to buy parts for his car. After he bought the parts, an unknown person called him and asked him to come to a place near the “Caucasus” police post on the border of Chechnya and Ingushetia.

Ingush policemen told his family that they saw a Lada Priora car with the registration number 990 163RUS, whose owner was Ilez Aushev, cross the border in the direction of Chechnya accompanied by two other vehicles; a silver “Gazel” and “VAZ-21099″. According to the Ingush police, a man in camouflage was driving Ilez’s car.

The relatives believe that Ilez Aushev was kidnapped by the puppet Kadyrov’s gangsters. The fate and whereabouts of Ilez are unknown.

Local Resident Abducted in Chechnya

Local sources reported that a civilian was abducted by gangsters from the puppet regime in Chechnya.

On November 17th, a group of Kadyrovites organized a punishment operation in the village of Pervomaysk, within Chechnya’s capital, Grozny. During the operation, they abducted a 44-year old male resident from his home.

The puppet sources claim that the hostage fought under the command of Rizvan Daaev in the first months of the second Russian invasion of Chechnya. The hostage is still in custody but the status of his health is unknown.

Three Civilians Abducted in One Night

Local sources have reported that on November 23rd, three civilians were abducted by Kadyrovites in Russian occupied Chechnya.

A resident of Kurchaloi was stopped while he was moving with his car in the Shelkovsky district of Chechnya. The 24-year old man was immediately abducted by Kadyrovites.

Another hostage case occurred in the village of Sernovodskaya in Chechnya’s Shatoy district. A 37-year old villager was abducted from his home by Kadyrov’s mobsters.

The third case happened in the Sunzha district of Chechnya. A 50-year old resident of the village of Bamut was abducted by gangsters from the puppet regime.

Surprisingly, all of the hostages were released a day after with bribes which were paid by their relatives. However, the victims did not want to speak about their abductions due to fear for their lives.