Chechens Protest Compatriots’ Disappearance

A group of Chechen refugees living in Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge staged a demonstration on February 18 to protest the disappearances of two Chechens, Bekkhan Mulkoev and Husein Alkhanov.

These two Chechens were acquitted by a Tbilisi court on February 6 of having violated border regulations and entered Georgia illegally.

The men were among a group of 13 Chechens arrested by the Georgian border guards in the late summer of 2002, five of whom were forcibly extradited to Russia.

The relatives of the two men acquitted fear they have been abducted and secretly handed over to Russia.

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