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Arjan Erkel is a dutch medical aid worker, Arjan Erkel was head of the relief mission for "organisation Artsen zonder Grenzen", or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), in Dagestan — a constituent republic of the Russian Federation.

His main task was caring for refugees fleeing from fighting in neighbouring Chechnya

He was abducted by gunmen in Makhachkala on August 12th 2002. To this day the humanitarian group is not sure who abducted Mr. Erkel or why. But it does know that he was being shadowed by Russian security forces in the days before his disappearance.

The BBC reported Sunday, April 11, 2004 that Erkel had been released in the Russian southern province of Dagestan and that he seemed to be in "reasonable good health."

MSF has suspended has its operations in Chechnya several times over kidnappings of its personnel.

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