Rule without law: Human rights violations in the North Caucasus
Amnesty Internacional
June, 2009, Amnesty International:
This report sets out Amnesty International’s current human rights concerns in Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria. Amnesty International looks at violations such as the excessive use of force by law enforcement agencies, deaths in custody, use of torture and ill-treatment in custody, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions, abductions, enforced disappearances and threats to human rights defenders
Table of contents:
1. INTRODUCTION
Recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers
Recommendations of the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism of the UN
Human Rights Council
2. THE CHECHEN REPUBLIC
Arbitrary detentions, torture and ill-treatment
Torture and other ill-treatment
The right to be held in a recognized place of detention
Enforced disappearances
Enforced disappearance in international human rights law
Mass graves
Reprisals against relatives of disappeared people
Victims of enforced disappearance
Unlawful killings
The right to life and the use of force
The right to a remedy – the duty to investigate
Targeting relatives of those suspected of being members of armed groups
Forced evictions of internally displaced people
Rights of internally displaced people
Threats to human rights defenders
UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders
Refusal by authorities to meet Amnesty International
3. INGUSHETIA
Excessive use of force, deaths in custody and killings
Arbitrary detentions, abductions and enforced disappearances
Threats to human rights defenders
4. OTHER REPUBLICS
Kabardino-Balkaria
Disposal of bodies
Restriction on jury trials
Dagestan
6. RECOMMENDATIONS
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