Editing First Chechen War (section)

===Prisoners and missing persons===
In the [[Khasavyurt Accord]], both sides agreed to an "all for all" exchange of prisoners to be carried out at the end of the war. However, despite this commitment, many persons remained forcibly detained. A partial analysis of the list of 1,432 reported missing found that, as of 30 October 1996, at least 139 Chechens were still being forcibly detained by the Russian side; it was entirely unclear how many of these men were alive.<ref name="missing">{{cite web|url=https://www.hrw.org/reports/1997/russia2/Russia-03.htm|title=RUSSIA / CHECHNYA|website=hrw.org|access-date=2016-12-04|archive-date=2024-09-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240906143755/https://www.hrw.org/reports/1997/russia2/Russia-03.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> As of mid-January 1997, the Chechens still held between 700 and 1,000 Russian soldiers and officers as prisoners of war, according to [[Human Rights Watch]].<ref name="missing" /> According to [[Amnesty International]] that same month, 1,058 Russian soldiers and officers were being detained by Chechen fighters who were willing to release them in exchange for members of Chechen armed groups.<ref>[https://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ar98/eur46.htm AI Report 1998: Russian Federation] [[Amnesty International]] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114133042/http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ar98/eur46.htm |date=November 14, 2007 }}</ref> American [[freelance journalist]] [[Andrew Shumack]] has been missing from the Chechen [[Capital (political)|capital]], [[Grozny]] since July 1995 and is presumed dead.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.refworld.org/docid/4b29fd4d2.html|title=Journalists Missing 1982–2009|last=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees|work=Refworld|access-date=2017-06-12|language=en|archive-date=2024-09-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240906143715/https://www.refworld.org/reference/themreport/cpj/2009/en/71346|url-status=live}}</ref>

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Major Vyacheslav Izmailov, who had rescued at least 174 people from captivity on both sides in the war, was later involved in the search for missing persons. He was honoured as the human rights hero in the [[Stalker (film festival)|Stalker Human Rights Film Festival]] after he featured in Anna Artemyeva's film ''Don't Shoot at the Bald Man!'', which won the jury prize for Best Documentary at the festival in Moscow.<ref name=247bulletin/> He later worked as military correspondent for ''[[Novaya Gazeta]]'', was part of the team of journalists investigating the [[Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya|murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya]] in 2006 <ref>{{cite journal | title=Vyacheslav Izmailov: we know who ordered Anna Politkovskaya's murder | via=The [[Jamestown Foundation]]|journal= [[North Caucasus Weekly]]| volume= 8| issue= 22| date=31 May 2007 | url=https://jamestown.org/program/vyacheslav-izmailov-we-know-who-ordered-anna-politkovskayas-murder/ | access-date=4 September 2022}}</ref> He also helped families to find their sons who had gone missing in the Chechen war.<ref name="missingiz"/>