Interim Resolution CM/ ResDH (2015) 45 Execution of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in 22 1 cases against the Russian Federation concerning actions of the security forces in the Chechen Republic of the Russian Federation

( see the list of cases in the Khashiyev and Akayeva group )

(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 12 March 2015 at the 1222nd meeting of the Ministers ’ Deputies)

The Committee of Ministers, under the terms of Article 46, paragraph 2, of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which provides that the Committee supervises the execution of final judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” and “the Court”),

Having regard to the numerous judgments of the European Court finding grave violations of the Convention resulting from and/or related to actions of the security forces during anti-terrorist operations which took place in the North Caucasus, mainly in the Chechen Republic between 1999 and 2006, the great majority of which concern enforced disappearances;

Stressing the continuous suffering of the relatives of those missing persons, who remain in uncertainty as to the fate and the circumstances of the presumed death of their family members;

Recalling its Interim Resolution CM/ ResDH ( 2011)292 , in which the Committee, inter alia , strongly urged the Russian authorities to take rapidly the necessary measures to intensify the search for missing persons;

Noting that, in response, the Russian authorities adopted a number of general measures to improve the effectiveness of investigations and the search for missing persons;

Deeply regretting that the measures taken did not bring any significant results in the establishment of the fate of the applicants ’ missing relatives;

Underlining that, in the face of this situation, the Court recommended under Article 46 of the Convention in its Aslakhanova and Others judgment a number of measures to be taken as a matter of urgency by the Russian authorities, notably as regards the creation of a single and high-level body in charge of solving cases of disappearances in the region ;

STRONGLY URGES the Russian authorities to take the measures necessary to create a single and high-level body mandated with the search for persons reported as missing as a result of counterterrorist operations in the North Caucasus.