E/CN.4/2003/24 page 31 • In October 2001, when a crowd of 300 youths brandishing iron bars attacked a Moscow market staffed by ethnic minorities and left an Armenian, an Indian and a Tajik dead, initial police statements referred to the perpetrators as football “hooligans”. In the Siberian city of Tiumen, a series of seven attacks on a synagogue last year were characterized as “young people’s hooliganism”. Incitement to racism, racial harassment, race-related torture and ill-treatment by State agents 43. In addition, it is alleged that the authorities have failed to respond to racist statements by public figures in Russia’s regions and that federal authorities allow city and regional authorities to ignore federal laws governing freedom of movement that discriminate against ethnic and racial minorities. It is reported that members of racial and ethnic minorities are disproportionately targeted for document checks on the street, which commonly leads to extortion and can result in detention, torture and ill-treatment. 44. The following are reported incidents: • On 19 April 2002, reportedly members of the Moscow City and Moscow District Organized Crime Force (RUBOP) were implicated in the torture, ill-treatment, extortion and fabrication of evidence against Tajik migrant workers. It is alleged that their actions were accompanied by racist insults and stereotyping of Tajiks as Islamic fundamentalist fighters and drug dealers. Authorities are accused of blocking attempts by the victims to formally complain. • It is alleged that Krasnodar authorities refuse to grant residence permits to approximately 13,000 Meskhetian Turk residents in Krasnodar Territory, rendering them “stateless” and unable to work legally or to own land. On 1 April 2002, Krasnodar authorities announced the establishment of deportation centres, staffed by paramilitary units, to deport those accused of being “illegal migrants”. 2. Reply dated 20 August 2002 from the Government of the Russian Federation 45. With regard to the disturbances and disorderly conduct that caused the death of three persons near the Tsaritsyno metro station in Moscow on 30 October 2001, criminal proceedings have been brought under articles 105 (murder), 111 (serious deliberate attacks on physical integrity), 212 (disturbances) and 213 (disorderly conduct) of the Penal Code of the Russian Federation. Ten individuals have been indicted. The investigation has been completed and the Moscow city court began to hear the case on 16 July 2002. 46. On 28 October 2001, criminal proceedings were brought, pursuant to the offence described in article 213, paragraph 2 (a), of the Penal Code, against unidentified individuals for breaking the windows of a building currently under construction and belonging to the Jewish Aviv cultural association in Tyumen. On 10 February 2002, the proceedings were terminated