APPENDIX
1: KNOWN PLACES OF DETENTION IN CHECHNYA
In
most cases, detainees did not know the legal status of the institution
where they were detained. Information on the official function and the
authorities responsible for the following confirmed places of detention
in most of the cases below comes from the Council of Europe's Committee
for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
(CPT).
Pre-trial
detention Facilities (Sledstvennyi izoliator or SIZO), under the authority
of the Ministry of Justice:
-
Grozny
(SIZO)*
-
Chernokozovo
(SIZO)*+
-
Vladikavkaz
(North Ossetia) (SIZO)*+
-
Pyatigorsk
(Stavropol territory) (likely Belyi
Lebed, SIZO)*+
-
Stavropol
(SIZO) (Stavropol territory)
-
Territory
Hospital at Colony No. 3, Georgievsk (Stavropol Territory)+
Temporary
detention facilities (Izoliator vremennogo soderzhaniia or IVS), under
the authority of the Ministry of Internal Affairs:
-
Chervlyonnaya
Station (according to Russian authorities, this facility was closed in
April, 2000)*
-
Naurskiy
District Department of Internal Affairs*
-
Shali
District Department of Internal Affairs*
-
Temporary
Internal Affairs Department of Grozny Selsky District (Tolstoy Yurt)*
-
Oktyabrskyi
District Temporary Department of Internal Affairs, Grozny+
-
Zavodskyi
District Temporary Department of Internal Affairs, Grozny+
-
Temporary
Department of Internal Affairs, Gudermes+
-
Khankala
Military Base of the Allied Group of Armed Forces (FSB and MVD operate
temporary holding facilities in Khankala)+
-
Temporary
Department of Internal Affairs, Shelkovskaya+
-
Urus-Martan;
(there are three temporary holding facilities in Urus-Martan: FSB, and
the district and regional MVD; at least one of them is in the Internat
boarding school)+
-
Mozdok
District Department of Internal Affairs (North Ossetia)*
Places
of Detention whose status is unknown to Human Rights Watch:
-
Former
holding facility, Goryacheistochnenskoye (Tolstoy Yurt) (according to inteviewees,
this facility was closed in mid-February, 2000; it was empty when visited
by the CPT on its first visit at the end of February)*
-
Solyonaia
Balka military base (Grozny) (at least during January, 2000)
-
Znamenskoye
police station (at least during January and February, 2000)
-
Ersenoi
military base (at least during April and May, 2000)
-
Achkhoi
Martan police station
* visited
by the CPT on its March 4 to 26 February, 2000 trip to the North Caucasus.
+visited
by the CPT on its April 20 to 27, 2000 trip to the North Caucasus.