North Caucasus

(Moscow) – The Boston Marathon bombings have pushed the turbulent history of Chechnya back to the top of the news agenda. Human Rights Watch has a long history of research in the region, generating a substantive body of research on Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia.

Reports:

Chechnya:

• “You Dress According to Their Rules”: Enforcement of an Islamic Dress Code for Women in Chechnya (2011)
• “Who Will Tell Me What Happened to My Son?”: Russia’s Implementation of European Court of Human Rights Judgements on Chechnya (2009)
• “What Your Children Do Will Touch Upon You”: Punitive House-Burning in Chechnya (2009)
• Justice for Chechnya: The European Court of Human Rights Rules against Russia (2007)
• Widespread Torture in the Chechen Republic: Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper for the 37^th Session UN Committee Against Torture (2006)
• “Welcome to Hell”: Arbitrary Detention, Torture, and Extortion in Chechnya (2000)
• A Legacy of Abuse (1997)

Ingushetia:

• “As If They Fell From the Sky”: Counterinsurgency, Rights Violations, and Rampant Impunity in Ingushetia (2008)

Press releases/Op-Eds:

Chechnya:

• Virtue Campaign on Women in Chechnya under Ramzan Kadyrov (2012)
• Russia: Protect Human Rights Defenders in Chechnya (2012)
• Russia: Bring Natalia Estemirova’s Murderers to Justice (2012)
• Russia: Remembering Natalia Estemirova, and Why Her Courage Lives On (2012)
• Russia: Chechnya Enforcing Islamic Dress Code (2011)
• Russia: Making Justice Count in Chechnya (2011)
• Russia: Celebrities Should Refuse Pay for Chechnya Gala (2011)
• Chechnya: Choked by Headscarves (2010)
• Russia: Leading Chechnya Rights Activist Murdered (2009)
• Top Chechnya Rights Defender is Brutally Slain (2009)
• Natalia Estemirova, Champion of Ordinary Chechens (2009)

Dagestan:

• Russia: Strictly Respect Rights in Dagestan Killing Inquiry (2012)
• Caucasian Prisoners (or how not to deal with militancy in Dagestan (2011)
• Russia: Investigate Murder of Dagestan Publisher (2011)
• The Black Widows of Dagestan: Media Hype and Genuine Harm (2010)
• Dagestan: A Wahhabi Village (2009)
• Russia: Investigate Dagestan Arson Attack (2009)
• Dagestan: curse of the sixth department (2009)

Ingushetia:

• Ingushetia Under Seige (2009)
• Russia: Journalist Detained to Stop Reporting on Ingushetia Protest (2008)
• War comes to Ingushetia (2008)
• Russia: Stop ‘Dirty War’ Tactics in Ingushetia (2008)
• How Chechnya came to Ingushetia (2008)