Amnesty International is seriously concerned about credible reports that eight relatives of Aslan Maskhadov were arbitrarily detained by pro-Russian Chechen forces in December 2004 and have not been seen since. According to the Memorial Human Rights Centre and other organizations in the region, the so-called Kadyrovtsy, armed forces under the command of First Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, are responsible for the “disappearances”.
