02 May 2006, 22:13
In Chechnya, European human rights activists were let to Tsentoroj
A delegation of the European Committee Against Tortures, headed by Mauro Palma, deputy chairman of the Committee, visited today the village of Tsentoroj - the family village of Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen government.
"In the village, the members of the European Commission visited the base, where Company No. 9 of the MIA of the Chechen Republic is deployed, local ambulance station, and the school, to be able to assess the social level of local citizens," reported the Ombudsman in Chechnya Nurdi Nukhazhiev, who is accompanying the delegation in their tours over the Republic.
Nukhazhiev stressed that "the members of the Commission were free to choose the objects for visiting, and nobody prevented them in their travels or visiting this or that object," the RIA "Novosti" reports.
We remind you that Chechnya is visited by a delegation of the European Committee Against Tortures. It became known that on May 1, the delegation of the Committee tried to get into the village of Tsentoroj, however, the security members on duty at the entrance to the settlement would not let the human rights activists into the village.
According to the information obtained from local citizens, during several latest days in the village of Tsentoroj (Chechnya), over 20 persons were kidnapped by armed soldiers in camouflage suits and taken to unknown places. This is the topic of the message of the "Council of Non-Governmental Organizations," that arrived to the editorial board of the "Caucasian Knot."
