HRC "Memorial": family of Chechnya residents is persecuted because of a relative militant

The Musaev family, residents of the village of Avtury of the Shali District of Chechnya, addressed the representative office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny. In their application they inform that during the latest three years their family has been exposed to prosecutions by employees of various power agencies. The Musaevs assert that during this period their home was searched and checked for 61 times. As a rule, searches were accompanied by threats, obscene abuses and destruction of property in the process of unauthorized searches.

The reason of this steadfast attention to this family from the party of "power agents" is the fact that one of the members of this family, Asludi Musaev, born in 1977, is a militant.

The Musaevs have repeatedly declared to representatives of the authorities that for several years they had no communication with Asludi. Despite this, they are permanently demanded to give information about his whereabouts.

During the last "visit," the Musaev family was given an ultimatum: to give out Asludi Musaev within a week. Otherwise, they were threaten that all the men would be taken away.