Volunteer of Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship killed

On January 16, Russian servicemen found the dead body of Aslan Davletukayev near a road that enters the town of Gudermes. Aslan was a volunteer of the information center of the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship. His body had traces of violent death and torture. Aslan's arm and leg were broken, joints were injured by a thin thrust object, similar to an awl. His death resulted from a bullet wound in the head.

Aslan Davletukayev was illegally detained by officers of security agencies on January 10 in the village of Avtury, Chechnya's Shali district. He was at home with his friend when it happened. Some 50 "security agents" came into three armored troop-carriers and two armored UAZ cars. A witness says some of the abductors were in masks. They spoke Russian. Threatening Aslan with arms, they took him away. Aslan's relatives and friends as well as activists of the Society searched for him after the abduction.

Since 2000, Aslan Davletukayev has regularly collected information about the human rights situation in the Chechen Republic for the information center of the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship. The Society does not rule out that the motive for the abduction and further murder of Davletukayev might have been in his public activity.