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EHRAC Database European Court of Human Rights Judgments: North Caucasus Security Cases EHRAC Database European Court of Human Rights Judgments: North Caucasus Security Cases Key to Database of North Caucasus Region European Court of Human Rights Judgments Articles violated and reason Criminal investigation failings applicant distress F/DBR the failure to carry out a ballistics report or delays in doing so ADA and anguish (art applicant's F/DCA the failure to carry out an appropriate autopsy or forensic report, or delays in doing so ADR detention on remand applicant's life is F/DDIE failure or delays in collecting evidence or in drawing up an inventory of real evidence put at risk but they ALR are not killed applicant torture F/DICP the failure to initiate criminal proceedings or delays in doing so, or to specify what investigative AT/AIT or ill treatment steps were taken denial of access F/DQA the failure to question the applicants or delays in doing so to court DAC delay in enforcing F/DQW the failure to identify and question witnesses or delays in doing so, or the failure to raise DEJ judgment. particular pertinent questions damage inflicted F/DM the failure to draw up a map, plan or itinerary DIAE on applicant's estate disappearance F/IVW the failure to identify other victims, witnesses or potential perpetrators of an attack, including DIS leading to art 2 those identified or named by the applicants extra-judicial LI lack of independence EJE execution failure/arbitrarines PI periods of inactivity, suspension & resumption of proceedings s in examination F/ACC of applicant's compensation claim FDM failure to de-mine IS illegal search Unit identified ill treatment APC Armoured personnel carrier leading to death ITD NC no compensation FSB Federal Security Service NJR no judicial review GRU Main Intelligence Directorate no effective GUIN Main Directorate for Reformatory Justice NECI criminal investigation no release IBV Infantry battle vehicle NRPT pending trial peaceful OMON Special Purpose Police Detachment enjoyment of PEP possessions/prop erty prolonged non- ORB Operational Investigation Bureau PNEJ enforcement of judgment removal from ROVD District Department of the Interior RC country RE refused entry RUBOP Regional Department for the Fight against Organised Crime respect for the SOBR Special Rapid-Reaction Detachment RH home RR right to a remedy UAV Unmanned aerial vehicle SHL shelling UBOP Department for the Fight against Organised Crime seizure of VOVD Temporary Department of Internal Affairs SP property temporary occupation of TOAE applicant's estate unacknowledged UD detention 1 © EHRAC, update 11.07.2019 EHRAC Database European Court of Human Rights Judgments: North Caucasus Security Cases UnK victim torture or ill VT/IT treatment Location of Articles violated + Criminal investigation Case name App. number Date of judgment Date of incident Unit identified Lawyer/Organisation incident reason failings Art 2: EJE, ALR,SHL, Unconfirmed, believed to be federal military. Indiscriminate heavy shelling of Katyr-Yurt in Isayeva 57950/00 24/02/2005 04/02/2000 Chechnya PI EHRAC/Memorial HRC NECI; Art 13: RR special military operation. 57497/00, Isayeva, Yusupova and Art 2: SHL, ALR, Fighter planes of the Russian military air force. Attacked refugee convoy on "Kavkaz" road 57948/00, 24/02/2005 29/10/1999 Chechnya FQA, DICP, FIVW, DDIE, FICP EHRAC/Memorial HRC Bazayeva NECI; Art 13: RR between Shaami-Yurt and Achkhoy-Martan. 57950/00 57942/00, Art 2: EJE, NECI; Art Khashiyev and Akayeva 24/02/2005 12/1999-01/2000 Chechnya DICP, FIVW, FCA, FDM, PI "205th Brigade from Budenovsk" in investigation file. EHRAC/Memorial HRC 57945/00 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, A had videotape showing interrogation of her son by a Colonel-General. Established he had been Bazorkina 69481/01 06/01/2006 02/02/2000 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, DQA, DQW detained and handed over to servicemen from GUIN for transportation to pre-trial detention SJI UD, Art: 13: RR centre Art 2: EJE, NECI; Art Estamirov and others 60272/00 12/10/2006 05/02/2000 Chechnya DQW, FCA, FIVW, FICP Russian military, OMON SJI 13: RR Art 2: DIS, EJE, Unconfirmed, described as "a group of servicemen, wearing camouflage uniforms and masks Luluyev and others 69480/01 09/11/2006 03/06/2000 Chechnya NECI; Art 3: ADA; Art PI, DDIE, FIVW, DICP SJI and armed with machine guns". 5: UD; Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art 17/12/2000 (2nd victim), 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; Unconfirmed. "Russian military" in case of first second victim. "20 servicemen in military Imakayeva 7615/02 09/11/2006 Chechnya PI, FICP SJI 02/06/2002 (1st victim) Art 8: RH; Art 13: camouflage uniforms, some of them wearing masks. RR Sheydayev 65859/01 07/12/2006 21/12/1999 Dagestan Art 3: AT n/a Derbent Town Police Art 3: AIT, NECI; Art 5: UD, NJR, ADR, Chitayev and Chitayev 59334/00 18/01/2007 12/04/2000 Chechnya FIVW Achkhoy-Martan VOVD SJI NRPT, NC; Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art A had videotape showing apprehension of husband by military servicemen. G did not contest Baysayeva 74237/01 05/04/2007 02/03/2000 Chechnya 3: AIT; Art 5: UD; Art DQA, DQW, FIVW that husband arrested by armed men in camouflage uniform nor did they suggest they belonged SJI 13: RR to illegal paramilitaries. Art 2: DIS, EJE, Akhmadova and PI, DQW, DQA FICP, FCA, Unconfirmed, "a group of armed people" wearing "milk grey uniforms" in applicant's account. 40464/02 10/05/2007 12/03/2001 Chechnya NECI; Art 3: ADA; Art SJI Sadulayeva FICP Placed victim in APC. Two other APCs and one UAV also seen at scene. 5: UD, Art 13: RR Jan-Feb 2000; 21 May 2003 Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art 57953/00, Unconfirmed, "about 20 men in military uniforms, some wearing balaclava masks" in applicant's Bitiyeva and X 21/06/2007 (1st applicant), April 2004; 17 Chechnya 3: AIT; Art 5: UD; Art FICP, FCA EHRAC/Memorial HRC 37392/03 account. May 2004 (2nd applicant) 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, "armed men wearing camouflage uniforms of the Russian armed forces and masks Alikhadzhiyeva 68007/01 05/07/2007 17/05/2000 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD, PI, DQA, DQW, FICP using two APCs, UAZ vehicles and helicopters" in applicant's account. Took victim and five EHRAC/Memorial HRC Art 13: RR others either to meat-packing factory or a grain elevator. Magomadov and Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art 68004/01 12/07/2007 02/10/2000 Chechnya PI, FQW, FIVW, DICP Federal Security Service ("FSB"). EHRAC/Memorial HRC Magomadov 3: ADA; Art 5: UD 57941/00, Art 2: EJE, NECI; Art Musayev and others 58699/00, 26/07/2007 05/02/2000 Chechnya DQW, DICP, FDM, PI OMON (from St. Petersburg and Ryazan region) EHRAC/Memorial HRC 3: AIT; Art 13: RR 60403/00 Art 2: EJE, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military. APC in which victims taken away bore number Musayeva and others 74239/01 26/07/2007 08/08/2000 Chechnya 3: VIT; Art 5: UD; Art FICP, PI, FCA, FIVW, FQW 108, belonged to Main Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Defence of Russia. Events Lawyer 13:RR unfolded in course of "sweeping" operation in the vicinity of Gekhi. Art 2: ALR, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, "federal forces" in applicant's account. Identified as " '205th Brigade' " in Goncharuk 58643/00 04/10/2007 19/01/2000 Chechnya PI, FQW, FIVW, FDM EHRAC/Memorial HRC 13: RR investigation documentation. Art 2: ALR, SHL, 205th Brigade (stationed in Budenovsk), OMON (from North Western region) identified as Makhauri 58701/00 04/10/2007 21/01/2000 Chechnya PI, FIVW, DICP, FDM, DDIE EHRAC/Memorial HRC NECI; Art 13: RR "suspect units". Art 2: EJE, NECI; Art Goygova 74240/01 04/10/2007 Jan-00 Chechnya DQW, FIVW, FCA, FICP, FBR 205th Brigade, OMON SJI 13: RR Art 3: NECI; Art 13: Medov 1573/02 08/11/2007 23/01/2000 Chechnya LI, F/DQI OMON (from Rostov-on-Don region) Lawyer RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Kukayev 29361/02 15/11/2007 26/11/2000 Chechnya 3: ADA, NECI, Art FQW, FIVW, DICP Federal servicemen carrying out a "sweeping up" operation. EHRAC/Memorial HRC 13: RR Art 6: DAC, PNEJ, Khamidov 72118/01 15/11/2007 13/10/1999 Chechnya F/ACC; Arts 8 and n/a Tambov consolidated police units of the Ministry of the Interior. Memorial HRC A1P1: TOAE, DIAE Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Khamila Isayeva 6846/02 15/11/2007 29/04/2001 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; FQW, FIVW, FICP Unconfirmed, about 20 soldiers who arrived in two APCs. SJI Art 13: RR Art 2: EJE, NECI; Art Tangiyeva 57935/00 29/11/2007 11/01/2000 Chechnya PI, FIVW, FQW, FCA, FICP OMON, Russian military- soldiers of the "205th Brigade". EHRAC/Memorial HRC 13: RR 2 © EHRAC, update 11.07.2019 EHRAC Database European Court of Human Rights Judgments: North Caucasus Security Cases Art 2: NECI; Art 13: PI, FIVW, DQW, FCA, FBR, Zubayrayev 67797/01 10/01/2008 17/09/2000 Chechnya Spetsnaz. - RR DDIE, FICP Ingushetia Art 2: SHL & NECI, Khatsiyeva and others 5108/02 17/01/2008 06/08/2000 (border with FBR, FCA, FIVW, FICP, PI Russian military SJI Art 13: RR Chechnya) Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, "a group of eight armed men wearing camouflage uniforms and masks and Aziyevy 77626/01 20/03/2008 24/09/2000 Chechnya 3: ADA, AIT; Art 5: PI, DQW, FIVW, FICP carrying torches" in applicant's account. Believed to be Russian military (spoke Russian, moved SJI UD, Art 13: RR around freely during curfew).
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