More than 200 people rallied Wednesday in Chechnya’s capital Grozny Wednesday demanding that their missing or kidnapped relatives be returned home.

Protesters said their relatives, officially counted disappeared, were kidnapped and kept against their will. They held posters picturing missing relatives and demanded that the authorities helped find them, Interfax said.

The action was timed to the International Day of the Disappeared, August 30th, created to draw attention to the fate of individuals imprisoned at places and under poor conditions unknown to their relatives and or legal representatives.

Chechnya currently has 2,736 people registered as missing, said Human Rights Commissioner at the republic Nurdi Nukhadzhiyev.