October 23, 2001

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On the night of October 23, officers of the Urus-Martan District VOVD brutally beat 23-year-old Beslan Ibragimov. The young man had been kept in the temporary detention center for more than nine months. He was taken into custody on suspicion of complicity in the murder of a person. The law enforcement officers had no evidence of this. Trying to get a confession from him, they “overdid it”: as a result of a blow to the head with a hard object, a nerve was damaged, as a result of which Beslan Ibragimov’s mouth became distorted and he began to stutter.

The detainee was beaten by policemen sent from the Republic of Bashkortostan. At the end of October, the deadline for their business trip to Chechnya expired.

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After 17 hours in Grozny, a local resident (registered at 16, Tobolskaya St.) Mouldi Vakhaevich Makaev, born in 1977, went missing. That day his mother came to see him from Ingushetia. She lived as a refugee in a neighboring republic, and her son remained in Chechnya. He was a riot police officer at the local, republican Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In the evening, Mouldi Makaev went with his mother to a friend, since it was not possible to spend the night in his house: it was destroyed during the war. Already there he was called by radio. Calling by the call sign - “Caucasus” - they said that there was a shootout on Zhukovsky Street and, as the mother understood, his comrades needed help. He asked her for money for gasoline and left in his Niva-Taiga car. Mouldi Makaev did not return back.

Relatives tried to establish the further fate of the disappeared person, but to no avail.

On November 10, 2001, they received information that he might be being held in the Urus-Martan military commandant’s office. A certain young man (personal details are not provided at his request), who was held for some time in the same building, let them know about this through second parties. He, according to him, heard the interrogation of an unknown detainee who was in the cell across the wall from him. In particular, they asked him under what circumstances he was wounded and where he got the weapon from. The questions were accompanied by beatings, and perhaps the person was also tortured. The informant also remembered the answers. The unknown detainee stated that he was a riot policeman and was wounded in a clash with militants in Gudermes. He also said his name - Mouldi Makaev. After his release, the informant, through second parties, as mentioned above, informed the relatives of the disappeared person about this. They, in turn, established that Makaev’s car was seen entering and leaving the yard of the former boarding school in Urus-Martan. After this, the relatives turned to the commander of the republican riot police, Musa Gazimagomadov. Subsequently, he stated that during the inspection, the information about Mouldi Makaev’s detention in the boarding school building was allegedly not confirmed.

On December 14, 2001, Mouldi Makaev was put on the federal wanted list on the basis of search case No. 16/03, opened by the Department of Internal Affairs of the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny. As of 2006, the whereabouts of the missing person had not been established. According to his sister, Birlant Makaeva, in addition to contacting the Memorial Human Rights Center, they filed applications with the police and the prosecutor's office. Criminal case No. 48187 was opened; his relatives knew nothing about his condition as of the same year 2006. There was no appeal to the court regarding the inaction of the prosecutor's office on their part, nor did they file a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Memorial Human Rights Center does not have any more information.

Mouldi Makaev is a native of the village of Goyta. His characteristics: height 187 cm, dark hair, brown eyes.

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Between 20 and 21 hours in the village of Starye Atagi, servicemen of the 205th separate motorized rifle brigade fired at a car with three young men in it. Two of them were killed, one was wounded. One of the dead was local resident Movsar Khamzatov, born in 1972. The name of the second Human Rights Center “Memorial” is unknown, but, according to eyewitnesses of the incident, he was a native of the village of Alkhazurovo at the age of 20-21 years. The third of the people in the car, Aslan Israilov, born in 1970, who lived in Starye Atagi, was moderately injured.

The prosecutor's office opened a criminal case into the shooting, but the investigation was unable to establish the identities of the military personnel who fired at the car.

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In the evening in Grozny, two men living on Gudermesskaya Street left their house. The military immediately appeared next to them. They stated that the men violated the curfew and therefore were detained. Attempts to explain that they lived nearby and that they were not going to do anything illegal had no effect. On the contrary, the excuses embittered the military, and they began beating the men. One of them managed to break free and call neighbors for help.

Help arrived in time: the second man (beaten and with his hands tied behind his back with wire) was already being dragged towards the 15th military camp. Seeing a crowd of people, the “curfew guards” abandoned their victim and disappeared into the territory of the military unit.

From the book “People Live Here”, Usam Baysaev, Dmitry Grushkin, 2006.