Russian Federation: Briefing - Torture, "disappearances" and alleged unfair trials in Russia’s North Caucasus

Index Number: EUR 46/039/2005
Date Published: 29 September 2005
Categories: Europe And Central Asia, Russian Federation

Amnesty International is concerned that new findings show there is no end to the serious human rights violations in the North Caucasus. What the Russian government describes as its "war on terror" in this region is being used as a pretext for violations that include "disappearances", torture, arbitrary detention and incommunicado detention in unacknowledged as well as official places of detention. This briefing includes three case studies.