The European Court of Human Rights has told Russia to pay over 500,000 Euros to the families of eight men apparently abducted by security forces in Chechnya.
The men who disappeared between 2002 and 2004 are all presumed dead.
The judges at the EU court said that four human rights articles had been violated by Russia, and also highlighted many deficiencies in the authorities’ investigations.
In a press release on Tuesday’s judgement, the court mentioned "a systemic problem of non-investigation of such crimes" and said that "the court has regularly found violations of the same rights in similar cases in more than 120 judgments, resulting from the disappearances that have occurred in the Northern Caucasus since 1999".
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