Russian military men detain schoolboy

On June 22, Russian military men detained and took away in an unknown direction a 17-year-old resident of Chechnya, Emilkhan Naurdinov, at the Kavkaz post, situated a few kilometers away from Chechnya's administrative border with Ingushetia, the youth's sister told the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

"My brother and I were making our way from Stariye Atagi (a large settlement in south-western Chechnya) to Nazran (Ingushetia). Military men stopped the car we were in at the Kavkaz post. Having checked out documents, they demanded that my brother show them his shoulder. (It is a common way used by military men in Chechnya to establish whether a man has carried arms on the shoulder.) After the examination, they aimed automatic rifles at him and carried him off without giving any explanations. He has a large mole on his right shoulder, and it was a reason for the detention," the sister of the detainee said.

In her words, all her attempts to seek for the release of her brother, who is a tenth-form student and has nothing to do with hostilities on the territory of Chechnya, have failed. She does not know where he is now and what his further destiny will be.