25 June 2004, 17:20
Taliban fighter from Kabardino-Balkaria returns home
The mother of Ruslan Odizhev, a Taliban fighter taken prisoner in Afghanistan, told the Caucasian Knot correspondent via phone that her son had returned home. Rasul Kudayev and five residents of Tatarstan and Bashkiria, who had been taken prisoners just as Ruslan, were released along with him. After the captives' had returned to Russia from the Guantanamo base, they sent several more months in an investigatory isolator in Pyatigorsk. Having not found evidence of their guilt enough to bring them to trial, the Department of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office in the North Caucasus made a decision to release them. Nina Odizheva said her son had grown thin and looked worse than he had had when he was extradited from Guantanamo.
Editors note: See also the article "Court prolongs detention period for Kabardino-Balkarian Taliban fighters".
Author: Luiza Orazayeva, CK correspondent Source: Caucasian Knot
