MOSCOW POLICE ARREST CHECHEN RESIDENTS WITHOUT CAUSE.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 1 Issue: 49

TheMoscow police have arrested so many Chechens who are legally inMoscow, but who have not committed any crime, that the local Chechencommunity has appealed to Mayor Yuri Luzhkov to reissue his February1995 appeal to treat each Chechen according to his deserts, Kurantyreported July 7.

New Criminal Code Seen Recalling Soviet-Era One.