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Deputy prosecutor of the republic Aleksandr Nikitin denied information that Russian security agencies were involved in the abductions.

According to a source closely connected with the entourage of Aslan Maskhadov, there is no and has never been such a general in the Ichkerian Armed Forces.

Officials of the Austrian, Czech, and German police announced at a news conference in Prague on October 24 they have jointly cracked down on an international gang smuggling people into Western Europe, mostly immigrants from Chechnya, the Middle East and Central Asia.

He told it upon his return from Geneva, where he had attended the 79th session of the UN Human Rights Committee.

Human rights activists of the Memorial society, activists of the Saint Petersburg League of Anarchists and other members of the antiwar movement gave their speeches during the meeting.

Bauddi Merjoev has a bad character in the Achkhoy-Martan district: district residents suspect that officers of the structure that is under command of Merjoev conduct illegal and ungrounded detentions and abductions of people, along with officers of Russian law-enforcement structures.

The fact-finding mission of the European Court on Human Rights is now scheduled to take place in Georgia and Russia at the beginning of 2004.

Information about a thousand of missing Chechens is to be delivered to the Ministry of Justice and send to regional human rights organizations this week.

The press conference "The Abducted and Forgotten: What Should Relatives of More Than Two Thousand Missing Chechens Do?" is to take place at the Independent Press Center (former press center of the Institute of Press Development) on October 28, 2003.

Some problems of assessing the situation with human rights and law enforcement practices in the armed conflict area in the Chechnya.

Colonel Ilya Shabalkin stressed, "Murders of some elders and village chiefs of the Itum-Kali district, as well as an attack against soldiers of the federal troops, are on the list of crimes committed by Mukhayev.

Threatening with guns, drunk servicemen made Ezhiev go into the guard-room and said he was to be detained as the activity of human rights activists on the whole and of the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship in particular is directed at discrediting the army, which "fulfills its complicated urgent tasks".

The federal national and cultural autonomy of Chechens will be engaged in solving problems of not only Chechens, but of all the displaced persons from Chechnya, regardless of their nationality. It will advocate preservation of the language, national culture and originality of the nation.

Moscow Helsinki Group Chairwoman Lyudmila Alekseyeva holds such an opinion. On October 22, the MHG presented a report on the human rights situation in the Chechen Republic.

Chechen human rights activist Aslambek Abdurzakov has said that the detainees, Vakha Bukeyev, Adam Makalov and Musa Islamov, are Chechen refugees who did not have refugee cards on them.