Ukraine: Further information on forcible return/torture: Lema Susarov

Index Number: EUR 50/004/2008
Date Published: 7 March 2008
Categories: Ukraine

Ethnic Chechen refugee Lema Susarov is still in detention in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has recognized him as a refugee and is trying to arrange for him to be resettled in Finland. However, the Ukrainian authorities have refused to release him.