23:00, 23 June 2009

AI is concerned that TACs are liquidated in Chechnya

The Memorandum on Human Rights, addressed by the Amnesty International (AI) to President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev, expresses concern because of closing and forced eviction of people from Temporary Accommodation Centres (TACs) in Chechnya.

The AI is also concerned of life and work of human rights activists, lawyers and journalists in Northern Caucasus, many of whom have recently faced threats, persecutions, insults, and became victims of violent disappearances and extrajudicial executions.

Among TAC inhabitants there were children, elderly persons and invalids, who were at risk to be forced away and stay without roof over head in the period when at night the temperature in Grozny sometimes falls below zero, as marked in the document. As of May, certain families were provided with alternative housing in private houses, however, as it became known, the title on many such flats proved to be doubtful; and families are under threat of eviction again, as reported by human rights activists.

Author: Dmitry Florin

Source: CK correspondent