Rights defender Khatazhukov asks Acting Head of KBR to promote legalization of Syrian Circassians' status

Valery Khatazhukov, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), has asked today Yuri Kokov, the Acting Head of the KBR, to help in legalizing the status of the Syrian Circassians, who stay in the territory of the Russian Federation.

Valery Khatazhukov has noted in his appeal that recently his HRC and other instances saw an increasing number of applications from the compatriots who had been forced to leave Syria and who moved to the KBR "because of the civil war ongoing there for several years already."

"Many have problems with obtaining and extending their residence permits and temporary shelter, because they failed, for reasons beyond their control, to extend their visas, Syrian passports, etc.," said Khatazhukov in his appeal.

He adds that the Department of the Migration Service of the Russian Federation for the KBR demands from Syrian Circassians, without getting into their problems, to leave Russia.

According to Valery Khatazhukov, Russian Federation "is actually casting Circassian compatriots loose", without taking action "to provide them with real relief that we see in respect of our compatriots from Ukraine."

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.