KavkazCenter - For the case of possible extradition to Russia the Chechen refugee Akhmed Chatayev

For the case of possible extradition to Russia the Chechen refugee Akhmed Chatayev

Russian invaders brutally torture and kill Chechen hostages

Human rights organizations have long ago and unambiguously based upon factual evidence showed that the Russian authorities represented by FSB, GRU, Interior Ministry and other so-called "power structures" are engaged in brutal tortures and monstrous killings with exemplary brutality of Chechen hostages.

Factual materials of atrocities perpetrated by Russian occupiers can be retrieved, for example, from human rights organization "Memorial" (http://www.memo.ru/) which has a large database on this subject.

We are going to mention only a few facts of crimes by the Kremlin's regime against the humanity which clearly indicate the inadmissibility of extradition of Chechen refugees to Russia because they will face suffering and imminent death by brutal physical torture and violence of Russian secret services.

- On March 2, 2002 Russian occupiers abducted three brothers Ugurchiyevs - Abdullah 14 years old, Timur 13 years old, and Albert 12 years old near the house number 16 on the Djakova street in the city of Jokhar (fomer Grozny). They were grabbed by Russian invaders exactly near the house where they were living and taken to a military base of Khankala.

- On March 26, 2006 in Shelkovskoy region of Chechnya, a shepherd Usman Abdulrashidov, saw how several black bags were thrown out of the Russian military helicopter. Inside were the bodies of abducted brothers Ugurchiyevs. All of them were terribly mutilated by tortures. Internal organs have been removed from them.

- On March 28, 2006 Yakha Ugurchiyeva mother of the abducted and brutally murdered brothers identified her sons.

Later on it was established that an accomplice in the abduction of brothers Ugurchiyevs was a puppet policeman Ruslan Elmurzayev, who "works" in the occupation gang of "Interior Ministry Department of Lenin district" of Grozny (Jokhar). He acted as a tipper-of and together with the Russian invaders organized kidnappings of people in Chechnya including children, the motive was removing of internal organs for sale.

- In October 2002, Lechi Islamov, a former Chechen commander "amnestied" by Russian invaders was poisoned (presumably by "polonium 210"). He was poisoned during a transfer from one Russian prison to another the reason was his refusal to persuade the Chechen general Khamzat Gelayev to come over to Russian invaders' side.

There are other facts of murders of imprisoned Chechen commanders in Russian jails. (http://www.grani.ru/Politics/Russia/FSB/m.114988.html, http://www.grani.ru/War/Chechnya/m.68106.html)

- On November 9, 2006, at about 19:30 local time in Baku (Azerbaijan) a Chechen refugee Ruslan Eliyev (born 1975) registered with UNHCR was kidnapped,.

After a while, it became known that Ruslan Eliyev has been secretly taken to Russia with the help of the Azeri secret services.

- On March 29, 2007, a Russian military helicopter dropped several bags to the forest near the village of Samashki in Chechnya. Local residents found the bags. In the bags they found bodies of brutally tortured people.

One of them was a Chechen refugee Ruslan Eliyev, who was earlier kidnapped in Baku. His nails were pulled out, eyes were pricked out, terrible burns covered the entire body and his fingers were broken to pieces.

- In mid-November 2008 brothers Tsokiyevs were abducted in the city of Malgobek (Ingushetia). Casings from bullets have been intentionally planted while they were being arresting. They spent only a few hours in the building of the puppet gang of "Interior Ministry Department of Malgobek city" after which they were subjected to severe tortures.

The only guilt of these people was that they were trying to adhere to the norms of Islam. Local ringleaders of "MIA" reported back to Moscow about ongoing "successful struggle against extremism". This act of sadism took place after a new puppet Yevkurov has been appointed to control Ingushetia by Moscow.

Only as a result of the active actions taken by relatives of the abducted did it become known that they were being kept in the building of "Interior Ministry Department of Malgobek city". One of the kidnapped has been taken to hospital where relatives managed to record the results of tortures on video.

Subjected to such tortures one can confess in anything. The victim has been beaten, ears were cut by scissors, needles driven into the fingers, humiliated, threatened with death, raped by truncheon. The torture took place under supervision of the Chief of "Interior Ministry Department of Malgobek city" Archakov.

These are just a few episodes of the daily practice of terror and violence that Russian invaders have been conducting in Chechnya and in the Caucasus for many years. Speaking about Akhmed Chatayev's case we can confidently assert that if Sweden would give him to Russia he will be killed by cruel tortures.

Akhmed Chatayev is already familiar with the Russian tortures because of which he was made a disabled person. Russian executioners cut off his injured arm while he was conscious and inserted electric wires into the wound brutally tortured him and turned him into the disabled.

We would like to mention one more important detail. The so-called "charges" against Chechen refugees whom Russia want extradited are all fabricated as it also was in the case of Murat Gasayev.

After investigating the case head of the Human Rights Center "Chechen Committee for National Salvation" Ruslan Badalov who personally knew Gasayev and his father told the Spanish authorities that Murat had nothing to do with the so-called "terrorism" and it is known to Moscow. (Http://www.memo.ru/hr/hotpoints/caucas1/msg/2008/03/m128514.htm)

However, Russians fabricated the "case" and demanded Gasayev's extradition in order to "punish" him so that this "punishment" may have influence on the local population in Ingushetia and Chechnya which has involved in the resistance against Russian occupation. Spain yield to pressure from Russia and extradited refugee to Moscow.

Political motives are also clear in the case of Gasayev. Not long ago heads of the Russian mafia connected with the Russian Federal Security Service have been arrested in Spain. The arrest of Russian mafia caused great irritation in Moscow and now Spain found a way to placate the anger of Kremlin's ringleaders.

It should be mentioned in this regard that the Spanish branch of the human rights organization "Amnesty International" stated that by deciding to extradite Gasayev to Russia the Spanish government has violated the so-called international law which is said to prohibit the transfer of people to countries where torture and abuse of detainees are being practiced.

The same happened with a fabrication of "case" of 13 Chechen refugees who crossed the border with Georgia in 2002 escaping from the war in Chechnya and surrendered voluntarily to the Georgian authorities. Russia immediately fabricated the "case" and sent Tbilisi an inquiry for the extradition of refugees.

A scandal occurred when it became known that Russians did not even know the names of refugees they sought to extradite. This fact is well known today to the Georgian authorities, the Georgian human rights defenders, lawyers and prosecutors, to all who took part in the hearing.

Despite this fact the former President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze hoped to cajole Russia for own political purposes and handed 5 of the 13 refugees to Moscow on Putin's birthday on October 7, 2002 thus making a "present".

Shevardnadze later explained his criminal act saying that Putin promised him that "their rights will be respected". (Http://www.memo.ru/hr/news/shevard1.htm). The refugees was only "guilty" in crossing the state boundary of Georgia.

On May 16, 2003, the Supreme Court of Georgia decided not to give our to the Russians the remaining three of the 13 Chechen refugees: Hussein Alkhanov, Ruslan Gelogayev, and Rustam Elkhadzhiyev who were "charged" by the Russians with "assistance" to the army of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

After coming to power of Saakashvili in Georgia and after retrial the remaining Chechen refugees have been released by the court of Tbilisi, but were immediately abducted by the Georgian secret services and secretly extradited to Russia. There is no information about the fate of the abducted and extradited Chechen refugees by Shevardnadze and Saakashvili to Russia.

Despite the policy of coaxing Moscow by Chechen blood, which was conducted by Tbilisi, Russia in August 2008 invaded Georgia and annexed part of its territory. This is the result of cunning and wise policy of the Georgian leaders, who decided to pay off from Moscow with the lives of Chechen refugees.

The most recent examples of total terror and violence conducted by the Russian occupational forces in Chechnya have been cited by the Russian newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", (http://www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2008/93/20.html) for which the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who later has been assassinated, was working. Anna Politkovskaya had gathered a huge factual material on the policy of terror and violence carried out by the Kremlin regime in Chechnya.

- On November 27, 2008, 8 bodies of women were found in Chechnya. The manner in which these murders were committed looked identical: a burst of sub-machine gun fire and a control shot into the head.

Later it was found out that slaughter has been carried out by one of the closest people to the ringleader of pro-Moscow puppet regime Kadyrov. It was commander of the puppet gang who got infected with AIDS and the crime was perpetrated in order to "take vengeance".

Among those killed were two good housewives and mothers who accidentally became unwanted witnesses of the killings.

Kadyrov arrogantly declared that the killing of women was allegedly a "related to the people's customs".

- On November 28, 2008 two boys from the village of Pervomayskaya were shot dead while the third - Ilyas Abdurakhmanov - managed to escape to the outskirts of the city of Jokhar (former Grozny). On November 29, he voluntarily went to the occupational police department of Grozny district and since that did not return home. His fate is still unknown. He disappeared somewhere in the torture chambers of Russian occupiers.

- On November 30, 2008, four Ilayev brothers were kidnapped. Three of them were killed and one (a schoolboy) is back to his home with signs of torture.

All these facts should clearly indicate to the Swedish authorities that the Kremlin regime can not and will not be satisfied by the blood of the Chechen refugees. Sweden should break off such vicious and criminal practices which are in opposition to the elementary norms of human coexistence.

Sweden could not show the same short-sightedness and weakness as Georgia did. Because for Russia it will indicate that it can exert pressure on Sweden and it will surely proceed further to political racket which ultimately could lead to the real threat for Sweden's security and sovereignty.

Kavkaz Center