RUSSIA: DOORS OF NOTORIOUS CHERNOKOZOVO DETENTION CAMP IN CHECHNYA OPENED TO MEDIA AFTER WEEKS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE ALLEGATIONS

Record ID: 347268

  • Title: RUSSIA: DOORS OF NOTORIOUS CHERNOKOZOVO DETENTION CAMP IN CHECHNYA OPENED TO MEDIA AFTER WEEKS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE ALLEGATIONS
  • Date: 28th February 2000
  • Summary: CHERNOKOZOVO, CHECHNYA--RUSSIA (FEBRUARY 28, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. SCU/WS: CHERNOKOZOVO DETENTION CAMP (2 SHOTS) 0.08 2. SLV: ARMED GUARD AT CAMP WALL 0.14 3. SV: GUARDS MARCH OUT DETAINED MEN IN HANDCUFFS 0.28 4. MV/SV: DETAINEES WALK IN CIRCLES (2 SHOTS) 0.43 5. TRACK/PAN: GUARDS OPEN CELL DOORS, DETAINEES LINED UP IN CELL (2 S
  • Embargoed: 14th March 2000 12:00
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  • Location: CHERNOKOZOVO, CHECHNYA, RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVA7F97084W36XNPDB6ZIRC7AX4S
  • Story Text: Russia opened the doors of the notorious Chernokozovo
    detention camp in northern Chechnya after weeks of human
    rights abuse allegations which have been repeatedly denied by
    Moscow.

    The Chernokozovo detention camp has been the centre
    of allegations of torture and death by international human
    rights groups and Chechen refugees.

    Russia has set up the centre as a place to detain and
    filter out Chechen rebel fighters from the hundreds of
    thousands of civilians and refugees fleeing five-months of
    fighting in Chechnya.

    But refugees have said that Russian authorities have
    indiscriminately detained, beaten, and tortured hundreds of
    refugees.

    The international Human Rights Watch group which has
    monitors just outside of Chechnya says it is convinced that
    reports of various abuse, torture, and murders in the camp are
    true.

    But Russia has denied the allegations and says it will
    investigate reports of abuse.

    Russian leaders have repeatedly said that the greatest
    human rights abuses in the region were committed by groups
    of armed bandits and terrorists who could moved freely and
    held bases in the breakaway region before the crackdown.


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