December 21, 2001

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In the city of Urus-Martan, on Kalanchakskaya Street in front of house No. 121, a landmine was detonated. This happened at the moment when a Ural car with employees of the district commandant’s office was passing by. One of them was injured.

Employees of the regional security forces arrived at the scene of the explosion. They broke into house No. 121, where the Pachaev family lived, and carried out an unauthorized search. The owner of the house, Zhunit Akhmadovich Pachaev, immediately presented a hunting rifle and permission to store and carry it. During the search in the house, the military did not find anything prohibited by law for storage. Nevertheless, Zhunit Pachaev was detained. The reason for the detention was not explained. He was released only on December 27, without explaining the reasons for his detention.

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In Derbent, Shakhrudi Mezhiev, born in 1978, who lived at the address: Argun, Lenin St., 121, was detained and disappeared. The circumstances of the incident are known to the employees of the Memorial Human Rights Center from the story of his wife Maryam Demisheva. According to her, her husband and three friends went to the neighboring republic for prosthetics. The fact is that as a result of a mine explosion injury, he was left without his right leg. This happened in a forest belt on the outskirts of Argun, when a man was looking for missing cattle. Judging by his wife’s statements, Shakhrudi Mezhiev did not take part in the hostilities.

Maryam Demisheva does not know all the circumstances of her husband’s detention. According to rumors, in Derbent the car he was in was stopped for inspection by traffic police officers. The people accompanying him ran out of the salon and managed to escape. The legless Shakhrudi Mezhiev remained and was detained. Since then, his relatives have known nothing about his fate. They contacted the Kurchaloevsky District Department of Internal Affairs. They even opened a search case No. 156008. After some time, it was suspended due to the alleged lack of evidence of the event. They were refused to initiate a criminal case on the basis of clause 1 of Article 24 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation.

As of the end of 2006, there was no new information about the further fate of Shakhrudi Mezhiev.

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