December 4, 2001

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On the night of December 4, in the city of Urus-Martan, representatives of federal forces detained a local resident, Saipudin Umarovich Bopayev, born in 1942. (according to other sources, born in 1965). Before the start of the second Chechen campaign, Bopayev worked as the director of the state farm “Gorets” in the Urus-Martan district. His relatives do not know which security agency carried out the arrest. The reason for the detention is also unknown to them. It is possible that he was accused of working as the head of an agricultural enterprise in the pre-war period. Two weeks after his arrest, with the help of an intermediary, Bopayev was released.

Cases of arrests of directors of agricultural enterprises of the Human Rights Center “Memorial” are known. Thus, on November 23, 2000, Lom-Ali Salaudinovich Zakhiraev, a resident of the village of Goyty, was detained and then disappeared. And he was the director of the state farm during the Maskhadov period. In January 2001, his body was discovered. On February 17, 2001, on the fact of the kidnapping of Lom-Ali Zakhiraev, the prosecutor's office of the Urus-Martan district opened criminal case No. 25022. On April 17, 2001, due to the “impossibility of identifying the persons involved in the commission of the crime,” the criminal case was suspended.

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On the night of December 4 in the city of Urus-Martan, masked officers from the security forces of the Urus-Martan district broke into one of the houses on Aviatsionnaya Street, breaking open the door with a crowbar. They did not introduce themselves and used obscene language. Threatening them with weapons, all the women were gathered in one corner. After that, they attacked Khasan Imranovich Sagaev, born in 1965, and began to beat him in front of the whole family. When Hassan's wife asked why he was being beaten, the military hit her too. They then took Hassan away. Relatives asked to know where and why he was being taken. But the military did not answer.

After his arrest, Kh. Sagaev disappeared. According to his relative, not a single law enforcement agency in the Urus-Martan region admitted that the arrest was carried out by them.

Sagaev’s relatives claimed that he did not participate in the WF of the ChRI. He was the father of six children and worked as a cabinetmaker. He had a workshop at home and made carpentry and furniture there. Therefore, he had money, which could have been the reason for the kidnapping.

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On the night of December 4, in the village of Achkhoy-Martan, local resident Muslim Usmanovich Khadisov, born in 1978, was kidnapped. Up to 15 employees of an unidentified security agency approached his house (Khachukaev St., 31) on foot. The “siloviki” were dressed in three types of military uniforms: camouflage, plain and a third, which the witnesses could not definitely describe. Standing out among the others were conscript soldiers who did not show much activity and clearly did not fully understand what was happening. They entered the yard and first ran into the first house, where Muslim Khadisov’s wife and his younger brother, 15-year-old Mustafa, were located. They behaved rudely and swore. With a blow from the butt of a machine gun, they knocked the teenager to the floor, handcuffed his hands and then hit him several more times. Then they began to ask about the money that Muslim Khadisov allegedly recently received, and about where he himself was. The wife of his older brother stood up for the beaten man. But they pointed a machine gun at her and tore off her gold jewelry. Realizing that the person they needed was not in this house, the security forces entered the second house, leaving two conscript soldiers in the first to guard the teenager and the woman. They entered the house very carefully, removing the latch on the door with a knife. Muslim Khadisov was sleeping. They lifted him out of bed and, without allowing him to get dressed and beating him, they took him out into the yard. Then they checked the photo in his passport with the photo they had - they matched. A small dispute arose between the armed men who arrived, whether to take him this way or allow him to get dressed. Having come to the conclusion that “the boss will be dissatisfied,” Muslim Khadisov was allowed to get dressed, after which they put a bag over his head and took him outside. Two “conscripts” left to guard the people in the first house saw that the others were leaving and rushed after them, forgetting to remove the handcuffs from Mustafa Khadisov. An armored personnel carrier was already waiting for them on the street. The captured man was pushed into it, and then taken away in an unknown direction.

Immediately after the abduction, Muslim Khadisov's relatives began a search. They contacted the prosecutor's office of the Achkhoy-Martan district, they also looked for him in the so-called. 6th department in Grozny, wrote to the Bureau of Vladimir Kalamanov, as well as to the head of the administration of the republic, Akhmad Kadyrov. But all these efforts were in vain. On October 9, 2002, the prosecutor’s office of the Achkhoy-Martan district opened a criminal case No. 63075 regarding the abduction of Muslim Khadisov. On December 8, 2002, the case was suspended due to “the impossibility of identifying the persons involved in the crime” (clause 1 of Art. 208 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation).

As of July 7, 2006, his further fate was still unknown. Muslim Usmanovich Khadisov's height is 178 cm, he had brown hair and three false front teeth. A special feature could be considered scars from gunshot wounds in the arm and leg.

The ethnicity of the kidnappers is Russian. They did not introduce themselves and did not produce documents. They arrived in armored personnel carriers. But their numbers and exact quantity remained unclear. The relatives did not go to court regarding the inaction of the prosecutor's office. No complaint was filed with the European Court of Human Rights.

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Outside the city limits, in the area of the 20th precinct in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny, the Russian military, who arrived there by helicopter, captured Alikhan Edilbekovich (according to other sources - Salambekovich) Azniev, born in 1978. He subsequently disappeared. According to information from relatives living on Bryanskaya Street in the village of Novye Aldy, he was taken and kept in Khankala for some time.

The search for the stolen item did not lead to anything, although it continued for a long time. For example, on May 26, 2006, the Chechen prosecutor's office reported that an investigation was being carried out in this case. At the beginning of April 2008, Alikhan Azniev’s uncle refused to talk with employees of the Memorial Human Rights Center, who were trying to obtain more reliable information about this case. It is unknown whether a criminal case was initiated. There is no reliable information about the further fate of this person. According to some reports, he was killed almost immediately after his capture.

On the same day and in approximately the same place (47th precinct of the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny), according to relatives, Adam Magomedovich Tisaev, born in 1980, was captured. The circumstances of his capture are reminiscent of the first case: the military arrived by helicopter. Residents of nearby sections 42 and 56 claim that there were two helicopters. True, they do not know who exactly fell into the hands of the Russian military that day, but they remember quite well that in the winter of 2001, not far from the 47th section on the road leading to the mountain range, a helicopter fired at a car in which there were three or four people. One of them is a woman. The car caught fire. One of the passengers, apparently wounded in the leg, tried to escape, but was captured and put into the landing helicopter. After this, accompanied by the second one, which remained in the sky the entire time, the helicopter flew away towards Khankala. The person captured was most likely Adam Tisaev. What his further fate is and what happened to the rest of the people is unknown. Members of the abducted man's family only added that he was in a VAZ-2109 car. According to them, he was wounded during the capture.

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