Timur Aliev appointed Chairman of Human Rights Council under head of Chechnya

The Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has appointed Timur Aliev as the Chairman of the Human Rights Council, the press service of the Chechen president and government has reported.

Aliev, while being the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Chechen Society", was actively engaged in human rights issues, the website of the Chechen leader and the government quotes Mr Kadyrov as saying.

"Within a month, the regulations on the Council will be drafted; then, the members of the Council will be defined," Mr Aliev told the RIA "Novosti".

Let us note here that earlier, during a meeting with representatives of the human rights community, the head of Chechnya expressed his dissatisfaction with the activities of human rights organizations, "working for foreign countries," and criticized the individual human rights defenders, in particular, Igor Kalyapin, the head of the "Committee against Torture".

"My report caused quite a scandal reaction, as it reported torture and kidnappings in Chechnya and unwillingness, in a number of cases, of the Investigating Committee to investigate these crimes," Mr Kalyapin said earlier. He recalled that this year the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has announced three decisions in connection with facts of torture and kidnappings in Chechnya; and in all the cases, no effective investigation was stated.