Chechnya: Two Residents of Achkhoi-Martan District Abducted
Human Rights Center Memorial
Chechnya: Two Residents of Achkhoi-Martan District Abducted
On June 21, 2012 Malika Vakhaevna Dzhabrailova, born 1993, residing at: Republic of Chechnya, Achkhoi-Martan district, Yandi village, 57 Zarechnaya Street, applied to the Human Rights Centre “Memorial”. She reported the abduction of her spouse Adlan Salamovich Galaev, born 1989.
As per her statement, on July 18, 2012 at 11:00 p.m. approximately 20 people, armed and dressed in camouflage, burst into their courtyard. There are two houses located within the courtyard: Adlan with Malika and two young children live in one, and his mother Zulai Galaeva and younger sister Zharadat live in the other. The employees of power structures, without introducing themselves or offering an explanation, asked Adlan's mother where he was located. Zulai pointed out the house to them. They broke down the front door and began to search the house and courtyard, demanding that they present any weapons. According to Malika, Adlan was fast asleep. The men attempted to wake him, hitting him on the head several times, but to the surprise of his relatives he did not wake up.
Malika reported that on the previous day Adlan's neighbour Dukvakha Shavkhalov visited him. After the neighbour left, Adlan's mother noticed a glass bottle filled with a transparent liquid on the her son's table. She asked him what it was. He answered that Dukvakha had brought vodka and insisted that he drink it. This surprised his mother. Everyone knew that Adlan never drank spirits. Adlan told his mother that he had promised and drank the contents of the bottle.
Malika wrote that at the time of the search one of the employees of power structures, having noticed the bottle, placed it in his pocket and tried to do so without anyone noticed.
The employees of power structures took Adlan, who was unconscious, with them. Adlan was wearing a brown t-shirt and silk pants of the same colour. When Zulai tried to find out where they were taking him, they said “for finfing out”. They did not specify any further details.
Malika also reported that Adlan was illegally detained in 2010. His whereabouts was established after a week. He was tortured and forced to sign confessions. Adlan was given a suspended sentence of one year pursuant to Art. 208 (organisation of an illegal armed unit or participation in such a unit) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Upon release, he was registered with the ROVD and no further questions were directed to him.
On the day after Adlan's abduction, June 19, 2012, his relatives applied to the Achkoi-Martan public prosecutor's office, the Federal Security Service, the Interior Ministry of Chechnya, the Interior Ministry of the Russian Federation, to the Investigative Committee of the Chechen Republic, to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, and also in the name of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Chechen Republic, the President of the Russian Federation and the head of the Chechen Republic.
According to Malika, when they went to the Criminal Investigations Department of the Achkhoi-Martan ROVD, the head of the department Taus Mamakaev accused Adlan of aiding and abetting militants. To the relatives' question as to whether he knew who took Adlan, Mamakaev answered in the negative.
On June 20, Malika was summoned for interrogation at the Criminal Investigations Department. Mamakaev asked her about people unknown to her, allegedly residents of Assinovskaya village. He asserted that they were her relatives and she ought to know them. During the interrogation, Mamakaev did not ask about her husband's abduction. Malika was interrogated in the presence of a lawyer, who was invited by relatives, although Mamakaev assured them that this was not necessary. Further, the head of the Criminal Investigations Department requested that Adlan's younger sister Zharadat Galaeva, born 1991, be brought to the interrogation. She went to the department on the same day. Mamakaev inquired about who she had given her phone to. According to Mamakaev, that phone with another sim-card was allegedly used for communication between members of an illegal armed unit. They took the phone and returned it after a few days, indicating that they had no complaints against Zharadat.
After Adlan's abduction, the family did not stay overnight at their home. According to Malika, eye-witnesses later told that employees of power structures came twice to the house at night. They broke the doors, smashed the windows and turned the whole house inside out.
Malika reported in her statement that Adlan was seriously ill: he suffered from fibrous-cavernous pulmonary tuberculosis of the lungs and chronic respiratory failure. After the torture he suffered in 2010, his condition worsened and he was undergoing treatment. A break in his treatment may be life-threatening.
It is known that at dawn on the night of Adlan's abduction, another resident of Yandi village Mairbek Zhalaudinovich Baidulaev, born 1996, was abducted. He was visiting his aunt (at the address: Grozny, Staropromyslovsky region, Stary village, 11 Gorenko Street). He was a 9th grade student at Yandi middle school and had successfully passed three exams. As at 29 June, the whereabouts of Baidulaev and Galaev remains unknown. Relatives of Mairbek have not contacted the HRC Memorial.
July 2, 2012