Chechnya

The Chechen government declared independence from the Russian Federation following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Systemic human rights abuses, including enforced disappearances, have been reported in the context of two wars between Chechen separatists and Russian forces (The First Chechen War, 1994-1996, and the Second Chechen War, 1999-2009) and the regime established and consolidated after the end of outright conflict.

The Natalia Estemirova Documentation Center Database contains more than 17,000 cases of enforced disappearance in Chechnya, largely from the decade to 2009.