Abducted Chechen human rights lawyer Makhmut Magomadov reappears
Nazran, Vienna, 14 February 2005. Makhmut Magomadov, the prominent Chechen human rights defender and lawyer who had been missing since 20 January, has been released, according to the Chechen Committee for National Salvation and the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF).
Magomadov has been active in preparing cases on human rights abuses in Chechnya to submit to the European Court of Human Rights. His kidnapping has been protested by human rights organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the IHF as well as Memorial and other Russian organizations, and has also been the concern of European and Trans-Atlantic intergovernmental organizations and the European Court of Human Rights, which has demanded information from Russian officials about the case.
The abduction is seen as part of a wave of repression against human rights defenders and groups in the Russian Federation.
More details about the case will be released in the coming days.
For more information:
Aaron Rhodes, Executive Director, IHF: 676-635-6612
Ruslan Badalov, Chechen Committee for National Salvation, 87-322400
Source:
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF)
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