29 March 2007, 22:59
Report of Human Rights Watch on Guantanamo is partially devoted to R. Kudaev from Kabardino-Balkaria
Yesterday, the international organization Human Rights Watch published a report entitled "Guantanamo Stigma," dealing with the fate of former Guantanamo prisoners, among them - Rasul Kudaev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria.
The report runs that seven Russian citizens of Russia were detained soon after the American invasion into Afghanistan and, finally, spent about two years in Guantanamo, the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" reports.
With all their complaints on unlawful treatment by Americans, all of them had repeatedly asked the administration of the Guantanamo camp not to repatriate them to Russia, since they could assume that it would be even worse there. Indeed, three of them after their arrest in Russia have undergone severe tortures and unlawful treatment; two others were convicted with remedial violations, while all were exposed to oppressions and persecution by Russian law enforcement bodies.
The report "Guantanamo Stigma": history of the seven prisoners who became hostages of Russian diplomatic assurances" is based on interviews with three former Russian Guantanamo prisoners, their relatives, lawyers and others persons and tells about what they had to go through after repatriation in March 2004. Today, contacts with these people are complicated, since three of them are behind the bars, and the others - either left the country or are hiding.
Author: Luiza Orazayeva, CK correspondent
