RUSSIA. EUROPEAN COURT CONDEMNS RUSSIA IN CHECHEN CASE

in a landmark ruling, the European Court of Human Rights found Russia had violated the "right to life" of Khadzimurat Yandiyev, a young Chechen who disappeared after a Russian general ordered him shot. In the first ruling of its kind on a disappearance case in Chechnya, the court also ruled Russia had violated a ban on arbitrary detention and failed to provide an effective remedy due to the failings of the official Russian investigation into Yandiyev’s disappearance. He disappeared in February 2000, aged 25, after being filmed in the company of a Russian general ordering him taken away and "rubbed out".