Adlan Akayev
Staropromyslovski victim record STA-K003 · Human Rights Watch letter no. 3 · Incident group: Khashiev–Taimaskhanov family
Age recorded: 45 · Reported death / discovery: Between 21 and 25 January 2000 · Location: Courtyard gate of Khashiev family home, Grozny · Evidence classification: Body found 25 January; eyewitnesses to discovery
Documented circumstances
When Magomet Khashiev reached the family house on 25 January, he found Adlan Akayev lying face down near the gate. Nearby were the bodies of Lida Taimaskhanova and Anzor Khashiev. Adlan’s work record book was found close to the bodies, along with the others’ identification papers. The three dead were later transferred to Nazran and buried.
Verification and unresolved questions
The report records the scene and location of documents as consistent with a security check before the shooting, but does not claim to have witnessed that precise sequence. No family relationship to the other two victims is established by this record.
Judicial follow-up (24 February 2005): Khashiyev and Akayeva v. Russia establishes the Russian State’s responsibility under Article 2 for Adlan Akayev’s death and the ineffective investigation (§§ 15, 17, 140–166). The judgment records a 1953 birth year and identifies him as head of a physics department; HRW’s initial estimate of 45 years is not silently replaced. No individual soldier was convicted by the Strasbourg Court. Cross-reference.
The account reflects Human Rights Watch’s contemporary interviews and the numbered list issued in February 2000. Unless independently judicially established, the identification of an individual soldier as perpetrator is not asserted here. Source variants are preserved. Pseudonyms used to protect living witnesses have not been reverse-identified. No unverified photographs are reproduced.
Related recorded victims
Anzor Taimaskhanov · Lida Taimaskhanov
Sources
Human Rights Watch, Civilian Killings in Staropromyslovski District of Grozny (February 2000) · HRW, Open letter dated 10 February 2000 (38 numbered names), record 3.
