E/CN.4/2003/24 page 32 because it was impossible to identify the persons responsible for the offence. On 19 September 2002, the decision of the investigating body to close the case was overturned by the office of the procurator of Tyumen region, which requested additional information. 47. In June 2001, similar acts were committed against a building belonging to the Aviv association. On 2 July 2001, the investigating body of the Tyumen municipal office of internal affairs decided not to institute criminal proceedings because the acts were not sufficiently serious. On 23 September 2002, the procurator overturned the decision not to institute proceedings pursuant to the offence described in article 213 (disorderly conduct) of the Penal Code of the Russian Federation. 48. There is not enough evidence to conclude that these offences were motivated by national or racial hatred. 49. The office of the Moscow city procurator decided to investigate reports that officials of the Moscow city and regional office for combating organized crime participated in acts of torture, extortion and falsification of evidence against Tajik immigrants. To date, the investigation has not been completed owing to the absence, in the communication, of specific information concerning the place where the militia officers allegedly committed these reprehensible acts or concerning any appeal that the victims may have lodged with the law enforcement agencies. The office of the procurator of Moscow region has found that no measure was taken on 19 April 2002 against Tajik citizens by officials of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of Moscow region. 50. Efforts to verify reports that two Ethiopian refugees, Mr. Adefers Dessu and his wife Sarah, were assaulted by a group of youths armed with chains have yielded the following results: According to information received from the Ethiopian embassy, the attack took place in Podolsk district of Moscow region. Records for 2001 and the beginning of 2002 have been verified and do not indicate that the persons in question lodged a complaint of an attack by unknown persons. All the hospitals in Moscow region that Mr. and Mrs. Dessu could have visited to obtain treatment are currently being contacted. The results of the operational investigation will be verified. Over the past seven years, the Office of the Procurator-General of the Russian Federation has repeatedly conducted investigations into the observation of the fundamental rights of the Meskhetian Turks in Krasnodar territory. The problems relating to the settlement of Meskhetian Turks in this region of the Russian Federation began after the outbreak of ethnic disturbances in Uzbekistan in 1989. In accordance with Decree No. 503 of 26 June 1989 of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), on the provisions governing conditions of sojourn in the regions of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) for Turks who were forced to leave their places of permanent residence in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, and bearing in mind the existing possibilities for providing housing and ensuring normal living conditions for the persons in question, a place of permanent