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Strasbourg court orders Russia to pay over Chechen disappearances

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PARIS, April 9 (RIA Novosti) - The European Court of Human Rights announced on Thursday it had ordered Russia to pay 282,000 euros ($375,000) in compensation to the relatives of people who went missing in Chechnya between 2001-2003.

The plaintiffs say the missing people vanished after being arrested by Russian servicemen. They also accused the Russian authorities of failing to effectively investigate the cases.

Isa Dokayev, Ruslan Askhabov, and Isa Dubayev disappeared in December 2002, Khanpasha Dzhabrailov - in April 2003, and Saidi Malsagov in November 2002. All were arrested by servicemen at their homes. Abdul-Malik Shakhmurzayev disappeared in February 2001 when he was stopped at a check point in his car.

The Strasbourg court ruled that the Russian authorities had violated a number of articles of the European Convention on Human Rights, including the right to life, a ban on torture and humiliation, the right to freedom and security and the right to effective legal protection.

The sum includes 211,000 euros in moral damages, 50,457 euros for material damages and 20,883 euros to cover court expenses.

Chechnya saw two brutal separatist wars in the 1990s and early 2000s. Militant attacks remain fairly common in the troubled republic.

Russia has lost the majority of cases brought against it in the Strasbourg court. In 2008, the court ruled against Russia 245 times. Overall, around 20% of all complaints made to the court in the past decade have involved Russia.

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