Front Line is concerned by reports received about the targeting of staff of the Society for Russian Chechen Friendship (SRCF) in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation. The Society for Russian Chechen Friendship is an active human rights group that provides daily press releases on the human rights situation in the Chechen Republic. Human rights defenders of the SRCF participated in the Front Line Platform in Dublin in 2003 and the organisation has received the 2004 'Recognition Award' from the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights. According to the information received, on January 20th 2005 agents of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) conducted a raid on the office of the SRCF, seizing the newspaper statute, registration documents, and other internal documents. 
