09/30/2004 12.00 a.m. UTC Chechens concerned over kidnappings of people
Chechen citizens are mostly concerned over kidnappings of people and corruption in payments of compensations for lost housing, a source in the Chechen presidential committee on constitutional rights of people told Itar-Tass.
“More than 4.3 thousand people the majority of whom are concerned over just these problems applied in the committee from the beginning of January till September this year,” the source emphasized.
The problems raised by Chechen citizens were discussed at a conference on human rights protection in the republic in September. All conference partakers were unanimous in the conclusion that an effective system to search for kidnapped people and combating corruption in payments of compensations for lost housing should be formed in Chechnya with the help of the federal centre in order to overcome these negative phenomena.
According to information of the Chechen prosecutor’s office 561 people were on the list of kidnapped people and 419 embezzlement cases were opened in 2003. Seventy people were freed.
As many as 258 people and 94 got missing since the beginning of this year. This information was cited at the scientific conference on the problem of human rights in Chechnya in Grozny on September 24.
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