Thursday, July 16, 2009

Rights Activist Murdered

Prominent Russian human rights activist Natalia Estemirova was abducted in Grozny, Chechnya, and later found dead in nearby Ingushetia. Estemirova was a colleague of Anna Politkovskaya, another Russian human rights activist, murdered in 2006. In 2007 Estemirova was awarded the inaugural Anna Politkovskaya award from the Reach All Women in War group. Like Politkovskaya, Estemirova had been investigating human rights abuses in Chechnya. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev directed to take necessary measures to solve the crime. Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, in turn, promised to personally control the investigation.

http://lenta.ru/news/2009/07/16/estermirova/

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