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| Former Russian Gitmo detainee missing |
| 2006-01-18 |
| Kavkazky Uzel reported on January 10 that Aleksandra Zakharova, the London-based lawyer for Rasul Kudaev, the former detainee at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo, Cuba, who was later detained by Russian authorities for allegedly participating in the October 13 rebel raid on Nalchik, had sent a statement to the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg on behalf of Kudaev's mother claiming that he had disappeared from a remand prison in Nalchik. Kudaev's mother, Fatima Tekaeva, said she found out that her son had been removed from the prison when she tried to deliver medicine to him. Prison officials advised her to appeal to Aleksei Sovrulin, head of an investigative unit of the federal Prosecutor General's Office, concerning her son's whereabouts. Zakharova, however, reported that Sovrulin hung up on her when she called him on Tekaeva's behalf. Zakharova said she inquired in the administration of Kabardino-Balkaria Republic President Arsen Kanokov but that the head of the administration, Oleg Shandirov, said he had no information that Kudaev had been removed from the prison. Zakharova said that Amnesty International, which has already expressed concern about Kudaev's situation (Chechnya Weekly, November 3, 2005), has also directed an inquiry concerning his whereabouts to the Kabardino-Balkarian authorities. Zakharova said that if his whereabouts were not clarified in the near future, she would direct a legal inquiry to the Kremlin. Kudaev's mother told Kavakazky Uzel on January 9 that he had been removed from the prison at the end of December after meeting with Kabardino-Balkaria Republic President Arsen Kanokov and presidential envoy to the Southern Federal District Dmitry Kozak and telling them that he had been tortured. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #10 Check the Crossfire Gazette, he may be listed there. |
| Posted by: junkirony 2006-01-18 14:21 |
| #9 #5: Tolja we should have renditioned him to Jordan, but did anyone listen? I like the "rendered" part, he should be good for about 80 pounds of lard. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2006-01-18 13:52 |
| #8 "lose him? He was never here" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-01-18 11:49 |
| #7 Maybe we could ship some more prisoners to Russia and they could in turn "lose them"? Since Russia is part of that good country network that everybody seems to love nobody would raise too much of a stink if we asked them to look after most of our prisoners. Also it has got to be cheaper to keep these Jihadis in a say Siberia than in Gitmo and we would get brownie points from the left for closing Gitmo eventually. Can someone point out the downside of this? |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2006-01-18 11:00 |
| #6 Sorry, I thought the /sarcasm was assumed here. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-01-18 09:18 |
| #5 Tolja we should have renditioned him to Jordan, but did anyone listen? |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-01-18 08:59 |
| #4 Any body know Ted Kennedey's e-mail? He should be told about this. He needs time to associate this with Bush. |
| Posted by: plainslow 2006-01-18 08:53 |
| #3 That's pretty bad bureaucracy. What makes you think that? Prisoners "disappearing" is a long and cherished Russian tradition. |
| Posted by: Steve 2006-01-18 07:52 |
| #2 All that human rights bull about how horrible the US is to their prisoners and now we see how the rest of the world does it. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-01-18 07:51 |
| #1 At least we don't lose people. That's pretty bad bureaucracy. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-01-18 07:35 |