Members of Chechen HRC complain about non-admission to victims of attack in Ingushetia

Members of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under Ramzan Kadyrov could not meet the journalists and rights defenders, who suffered in the attack near the Chechen-Ingush border. At the hospital, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) were talking to the victims at that moment, said Kheda Saratova, a Chechen rights defender.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that today an attack was committed on rights defenders and journalists, who were returning from Beslan to Grozny. Nine people were beaten up. The attackers, who travelled in cars with Chechen license number plates, burned down the van of the JMG, which was used by the victims.

A message about the attack arrived to members of the HRC under the head of Chechnya from Alexandra Elagina, a correspondent of The New Times, who was in the van, said Kheda Saratova.

According to her story, and a lawyer Zaurbek Sadakhanov, another member of the HRC under Kadyrov, they were not admitted to the hospital to meet the victims. Saratov also failed to meet those of the victims, who testified about the attack to the agents of the Sunzha ROVD (District Interior Division) of Ingushetia. Saratov said that she had already contacted Mikhail Fedotov, the Chairman of the Russian Presidential Council on Human Rights.

The victims of the attack committed in Chechnya lived in "Grozny City", said Magomed Mutsolgov, an Ingush rights defender and the head of the organization named MASHR.

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