Russian President Dmitry Medvedev gestures during his meeting with the Minister of education and Science Andrei Fursenko, in residence at Gorki outside Moscow on April 19, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Vladimir Rodionov/RIA Novosti/KremlinBy Thomas GroveMOSCOW | Wed, April 20, 2011 2 pm EDT
Moscow (Reuters)-, the Russian human rights activists appealed to President Dmitri Medvedev on Wednesday to intervene to stop extrajudicial abductions and to enforce the rule of law in predominantly Muslim Chechnya region of the country.
A decade after federal forces led the separatists to power in Chechnya, workers of said rights leadership backed by the Kremlin in the region has enormous powers and local prosecutors did not have the power of sidewalk or cases of torture and abduction probe.
A letter prepared by five rights groups asked Medvedev to keep what they called a promise to investigate on a "such disappearances of applied to gross violations of human rights, torture and extrajudicial executions by members of law enforcement and security agencies.".
"As the highest official in the Federation of Russia you need to take comprehensive measures to enforce the law on the territory of the Federation of Russia," said the letter signed by the veteran Lyudmila Alexeyeva human rights activist and others.
Medvedev met workers rights eleven months ago to discuss the situation in the mountainous region of Chechnya, the site of two separatist wars since fall of the Soviet Union.
They said he has promised to investigate rights violations they had raised, but nothing had yet been done.
Chechnya is ruled by the loyalist turned separatists Kremlin Ramzan Kadyrov, who was accused by the groups for the defence of rights of use of its local militia to run personal decrees and the spread of fear.
Kadyrov repeatedly denied the allegations as attempts to tarnish his name. A spokesman for Kadyrov was not available for comment.
Igor Kalyapin, Chairman of the Committee against Torture, said that regional prosecutors had admitted that they were unable to take "concrete measures" stop violations or probe extrajudicial kidnapping, used as a means of cracking down on suspected militants.
"We can expect nothing law enforcement agencies if the Attorney gives this kind of assessment of the Committee of inquiry...". I see no way out of this situation with legal instruments, "he says.
Analysts say Moscow transforms to condone violations of rights by the forces loyal to Kadyrov provided he keeps the precarious in Chechnya peace as an Islamist insurgency spreads in other provinces of the North Caucasus, such as Dagestan and Ingushetia has alleged.
Rebels want to carve out an Islamic State in the region of the Russian Caucasus, which Imperial-era Moscow conquered after decades of bloody wars in the 19th century.
Insurgents claim responsibility for a bomb attack at the airport the busiest Moscow, Domodedovo, in January which killed 37 people.
Analysts and activists rights said that a powerful mixture of religion, corruption, and tactical methods by enforcement of the Act strengthens the Islamist separatist movements.
(Editing by Tim Pearce)
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