Stanislav Dmitrievsky was detained in KBR on his way from Chechnya

Stanislav Dmitrievsky, the executive director of the "Russian-Chechen Friendship Society", who was returning from Chechnya to Nizhny Novgorod within the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) has reported his three-hour detention at the federal checkpoint in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

According to Stanislav, when checking his passport at the federal checkpoint, located near the state farm "Urukh", law enforcers told him that he "is listed in some database as a person, who should be checked."

According to Elena Milashina, a correspondent of the "Novaya Gazeta", Stanislav Dmitrievsky was released only after interference of the KBR's Deputy Interior Minister.

"It is not quite clear whether it had to do with the conflict of the JMG with the authorities of Chechnya, but Stanislav Dmitrievsky has worked for a week in Chechnya with the JMG," Elena wrote today on her Facebook page.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on December 13 it became known about a fire that broke out in the Grozny office of the JMG, where human rights activists of the Committee against Torture (CaT) are the members. On December 14 in Grozny, two CaT employees were detained and soon released. On the following day it became known that the JMG decided to continue working in Chechnya, but considered to transfer its Chechen office to another region – to Dagestan or Stavropol Territory.

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