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Three Russian human rights activists detained by security forces in the foothills of the Shali district of Chechnya. Told members of the human rights center “Memorial” in Grozny.

“We received information that the city of Shali, security forces detained human rights defenders, Vladislav Sadykov, Dmitry Egoshin and Roman Veretennikov. They are in a republic within the framework of the activities launched in November last year, the Public Commission on Chechnya, which was established several Russian human rights organizations to monitor the situation in the republic in the field of human rights. We are now investigating the exact circumstances of what happened, “- said in a Memorial”.

Presumably, human rights activists were detained by local police department, said the “Caucasian Knot”. The head of the district police department in the Shali district of the former Amir of the Wahhabi dzhamaatata village Geldagen, and now Russia’s police officer and Hero of Russia Timur Daud. His in Chechnya is considered one of the most close to the president of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov commanders security officials.

The republican law enforcement agencies from making any comments about the detention of Russian human rights activists abstained. The representative of the republican Interior Ministry said he did not have full information about it.

Human rights activists were detained during a meeting with an unknown resident of the Chechen Republic, which has promised to provide valuable information about one of the kidnapped residents in the Shali district, said the press service of the Interregional Committee Against Torture.

During the meeting, Roman Veretennikov and Vladislav Sadykov were arrested and taken to the office of the chief Shali police department. Half an hour later traffic police detained a third party group, Dmitry Egoshin. According to preliminary information, this meeting was previously prepared by the staff in the Shali police department.

In a telephone conversation with the staff of the Committee against Torture Oleg Habibrahmanovym man who introduced Magomed Daudovym, reported that the defender was actually delivered to the Shali police department, where investigators are conducting them any event. In his words, they were not detained procedurally, but will be in the Shali police department until the morning. The detention of lawyers, he said, were alerted authorities of the FSB and the Prosecutor of the republic.

detained human rights activists are organizing “Man and Law” (Yoshkar-Ola) – Dmitri Yegoshin, “Mother to protect the rights of detainees, suspects and convicted” (g. Krasnodar) – Roman Veretennikov (LEAs), Bashkir representation MROO “The Committee against Torture” – Vladislav Sadykov.

Ten Russian human rights organizations, among which the Moscow Fund “Public Verdict” , Human Rights Institute in Moscow, the public organization “Man and Law” from Yoshkar-Ola, information-analytical agency “Objective” in Grozny, created in November 2009 a public commission on Chechnya and has already started concrete assistance to victims of human rights violations in republic. To work in Chechnya, the Commission formed a consolidated mobile teams, comprising officers and representatives of human rights organizations from different regions of Russia, who, replacing each other, will always remain in Chechnya.

sharply negative reaction to this initiative was made by the Commissioner for Human Rights in Chechnya Nurdi Nuhazhievym. He accused human rights organizations in the organization of regular public-relations campaign. However, some non-governmental organizations considered decision to establish a public commission on Chechnya, the right step, since the work of human rights defenders in the country is seriously hampered, and human rights workers are often forced to engage in self-censorship and, in fact deprived of the opportunity to conduct investigations into the numerous violations of human rights and freedoms in CR.