ECtHR awards compensation to relatives of a kidnapped Ingush resident

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged Russia to pay 63,000 euros in the case on torture and kidnapping of Ingush resident Makhsud Makhloev.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on October 29, 2009, Makhsud Makhloev was kidnapped in the village of Sleptsovskaya in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia. According to Khamutkhan Makhloev, a father of the kidnapped man, Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov announced that he took the case under his personal control.

According to the claim filed by Khamutkhan Makhloev, in December 2006, his son was detained on suspicion of attacking a policeman. In 2009, unidentified persons injured Makhsud Makhloev in the street, and after that law enforcers visited him in hospital, where they threatened the injured man and his family members. In October 2009, a group of armed men broke into the house of the Makhloev family. Makhsud and his brother Ibragim were beaten and taken away to some unknown destination. Since then, Makhsud Makhloev disappeared.

In 2010, the investigation was stopped. Investigators failed to identify the kidnappers.

Judges of the ECtHR believe that three articles of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights, including the right to life, the prohibition of torture, and the right to liberty and security of person, were violated in respect of Makhsud Makhloev.