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requested the State party not to remove the authors to the Russian Federation while the
communication was under consideration by the Committee.
Factual background
2.1
Mr. X is of mixed ethnic origin, having a Russian mother and a Karachay father.
Mrs. X is an ethnic Russian. He grew up in Karachayevsk in the North Caucasus Russian
Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia. His family refused to participate in the Wahhabi
activities. Mr. X submits that his father was stabbed with a knife by Wahhabi militants and
passed away in the night from 13 to 14 December 1998, because he refused to send his two
youngest sons to a Wahhabi training camp on the border between Georgia, the Chechen
Republic and Ingushetia. The assault was reported to the authorities but it has not been
investigated and nobody was held accountable. Mr. X’s mother and two of his brothers
were granted asylum in Denmark in 2002 based on the above incident. In 2004, Mr. X’s
other brother S.X. wrote a critical psychology essay about Wahhabism. On 20 November
2004, the 7-month-old son of his brother was killed by militants. The said brother and his
wife received asylum in France in 2008. Furthermore, his fourth brother currently resides in
Sweden and his half-sister has Danish citizenship. Mr. X’s entire family allegedly had
problems with militants and has fled the Russian Federation for that reason. The authors
submit that those facts are undisputed by the Danish Refugee Appeals Board in the present
communication.
2.2
Mr. X submits that, after he returned from the compulsory State military service in
1999, he and one of his brothers were visited by militants, who attempted to recruit them to
participate in their activities. He and his brother fled home and lived in different places with
friends and family members. In 2003, Mr. X was located by a group of militants at the
marketplace where he worked at that time. They approached him, calling him by name, and
told him that they needed people to fight for secession from the Russian Federation. When
he refused to collaborate with them, they beat him up with some hard tools and kicked him
all over his body. He met his future wife, a nurse, while he was being treated after the
assault. The couple married on 24 October 2003 and moved to Stanitsa Storozhevaya, also
in Karachay-Cherkessia, a town mainly inhabited by ethnic Russians and, as a result, there
were no further inquiries in relation to Mr. X from militants between 2003 and 2006.
2.3
In April 2006, Mr. X was allegedly visited by four militants from Karachayevsk at
his home in Stanitsa Storozhevaya; he personally knew two of those individuals from his
childhood. He submits that he was of particular interest to militants owing to his family’s
status in the society, his prior experience with the military and his “Russian” appearance
that could be of advantage when carrying out terrorist activities. The two individuals known
to Mr. X apparently informed him of the date, method and location of an upcoming terrorist
attack and explained his anticipated role in it as a suicide bomber. Mr. X asked for a few
days to think over the “proposal”, because he was sure that in case of his upfront refusal to
cooperate with militants he and his wife would be killed. Two or three days later the four
individuals came back and again tried to force Mr. X and his wife to join their ranks. When
on that occasion Mr. X refused to participate in the terrorist attack, he was told that in that
case he and his wife would have to be killed, since they had information regarding the
planned activities. Mr. X then accepted to collaborate with militants and was instructed to
wait for further instructions. The individuals took the authors’ identity papers to keep them
under control and to prevent them from escaping.
2.4
Mr. X submits that he approached the Federal Security Service shortly thereafter and
informed its agents about the planned terrorist attack. On 19 April 2006, there was some
exchange of fire in Stanitsa Storozhevaya and agents of the Federal Security Service killed
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