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Strasbourg,
03.06.2003 - A delegation of the European Committee for the prevention of
torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (CPT) has recently
carried out a one-week visit (23 to 29 May 2003) to the Chechen Republic of the
Russian Federation. It was the sixth time since the outbreak of the current
conflict in Chechnya that the CPT has examined the treatment of persons deprived
of their liberty in the Republic.
The CPT's delegation consisted of Zdenĕk HÁJEK
(Head of delegation), a Czech lawyer, Jean-Pierre RESTELLINI, a Swiss medical
doctor, and Davor STRINOVIĆ, a Croatian forensic doctor, together with
Trevor STEVENS (Executive Secretary) and Petya NESTOROVA of the Committee's
Secretariat.
The delegation focused its attention on the treatment of persons detained
by Federal forces and by Federal and Republican law enforcement agencies. Forced
disappearances and unofficial places of detention were among the issues explored
during the visit. In addition, conditions of detention in pre-trial
establishments were reviewed, including at the recently reopened SIZO No 1 in
Grozny.
The delegation visited the following places of deprivation of liberty:
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ORB-2 (operational/search bureau of the North Caucasus operations
directorate of the Chief directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of
Russia responsible for the Southern federal region), Staropromyslovkyi Rd.,
Grozny;
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IVS (temporary detention facility) of the Directorate of Internal
Affairs, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, Grozny;
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Leninskyi District Department of Internal Affairs, Grozny;
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Zavodskyi District Department of Internal Affairs, Grozny;
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Naurskyi District Department of Internal Affairs, Naurskaya;
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Groznenskyi District Department of Internal Affairs, Tolstoy
Yurt;
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SIZO (pre-trial establishment) No 1, Grozny;
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SIZO No 2, Chernokozovo.
In the course of the visit, the CPT's
delegation held discussions with numerous senior officials of the Chechen
Republic Administration and of Federal structures. They included Mr A. KADYROV,
Acting President of the Chechen Republic, General MAKAROV, Commander of the
Allied Group of Forces in the North Caucasian region, Mr R. DUDAEV, Chairman of
the Security Council of the Chechen Republic, Mr A. ALKHANOV, Minister of the
Interior of the Chechen Republic, Mr Z. ZAVERBEKOV, Chairman of the Supreme
Court of the Chechen Republic, Mr V. KRAVCHENKO, Prosecutor of the Chechen
Republic, and Mr A. MOKRITSKY, Military Prosecutor of the Allied Group of
Forces.
The President of the CPT, Ms S. CASALE,
joined the delegation in the Chechen Republic from 26 to 27 May 2003.
Subsequently, on 28 May 2003, she had talks in Moscow on issues arising out the
visit with Mr A. SULTYKOV, Special Representative of the President of the
Russian Federation for ensuring human and civil rights and freedoms in the
Chechen Republic, and Ms E. PAMFILOVA, Chairperson of the Commission for Human
Rights under the President of the Russian Federation.
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