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Friday, December 7, 2007

RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Where is Artur Akhmatkhanov?

RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Where is Artur Akhmatkhanov?

Appeal status: Active
Appeal started: December 2007

“Even today I think, maybe today, maybe tomorrow they will give my son back to me… Every night he appears in my sleep and I cry all the time… That is not a life any more. For me everything came to a halt. I just walk over the earth.”Bilat Akhmatkhanova, Artur Akhmatkhanov's mother.

On 2 April 2003 Artur Akhmatkhanov, a student and human rights defender, was arrested in Grozny, Chechnya, apparently by masked members of the Russian federal forces. They covered his head and forced him into an armoured personnel carrier. He has not been seen since. He had been married for just one month.

At the time of his disappearance Artur Akhmatkhanov was a volunteer at the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, a human rights organization.

In a letter to local Chechen authorities in March 2004, a military commander denied any involvement by the Russian military in Artur Akhmatkhanov’s disappearance. An official investigation into his disappearance, which was launched on 4 April 2003, was suspended.

The Russian non-governmental organization Memorial has estimated that between 3,000 and 5,000 men, women and children have been forcibly disappeared or abducted in Chechnya since 1999.

Artur Akhmatkhanov’s mother, Bilat Akhmatkhanova, continues to search for her son in mass graves, places of detention and other places where she fears he may be held. She has not given up hope that her son is still alive.

Please write, calling on the Russian authorities to: ensure that Artur Akhmatkhanov's disappearance is fully investigated; make public the official list of all missing people in Chechnya; ensure full and impartial investigations into the mass graves in Chechnya; and provide protection from intimidation for witnesses and relatives.

Send appeals to:
Vladimir Putin
President of the Russian Federation
103132 g. Moscow
4 Staraya Ploshchad (or Old Square)
Russian Federation
Or you can send an email via this website: www.kremlin.ru/eng/articles/send_letter_Eng1a.shtml
Salutation: Dear President Putin
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