ICRC Voices Concern Over Missing Worker

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It has now been three years since Usman Saidaliev, an employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Russia’s volatile province of Chechnya, was abducted from his home in the village of Novy-Engenoy by unidentified armed men, the ICRC said Wednesday.

Though the ICRC has made numerous representations to the Russian authorities in an attempt to find out what has happened to Saidaliev and learn his whereabouts, neither the organization nor his family has received any news of him, according to the ICRC statement. The ICRC is continuing to search for information about his abduction.

The agency “takes this opportunity to emphasize the right of families to know the fate of loved ones who have gone missing in connection with armed conflict and other situations of widespread violence. This is a fundamental provision of international humanitarian and human rights law,” the statement reads.

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