October 7th, 2009
Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov has won a defamation case against human rights group Memorial and its head, Oleg Orlov. But the trial has given the organisation a chance to address the injustices in the region. Tanya Lokshina reports
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Tags: Tags: Chechnya, memorial, Natalia Estemirova, Ramzan Kadyrov, Russia,
October 7th, 2009
On 7 October 2006, Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in her Moscow apartment building. Her sister Elena Kudimova spoke to Lance Lattig about Anna’s death, the ongoing search for justice, and the prize that bears her name
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Tags: Tags: Chechnya, Natalia Estemirova, one million signatures, politkovskaya, raw in war, Russia,
September 15th, 2009
The killing of Natalia Estemirova is a sign of the republic’s drift into lawlessness and violence under President Kadyrov, writes Lucy Ash
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August 19th, 2009
Akhmed Gisayev, a Memorial employee who had been working with Natalia Estemirova to investigate a sensitive human rights case in the days before her murder in July has experienced a series of menacing events in the past days and weeks. Gisayev, who lives in the Chechen capital, Gronzy, has reported being stopped by armed men in the street, having his flat searched and being under constant surveillance by security services. Read more here
Tags: Tags: Akhmed Gisayev, censorship, Chechnya, human rights, memorial, murder, Natalia Estemirova, Russia,
August 11th, 2009
A Russian NGO chief and her husband were found shot dead in Chechnya on Tuesday, with their corpses stuffed into a car boot. The murder of the head of Let’s Save the Generation, Zarema Sadulayeva, and her husband came less than one month after Natalya Estemirova, one of the best known activists in Chechnya, was killed in similar circumstances. Read more hereTags: Tags: caucasus, Chechnya, murder, Natalia Estemirova, Russia, Zarema Sadulayeva,
July 17th, 2009
On 16 July in Grozny, the Chechen capital, a crowd of mourners, mostly women, following a minivan containing the body of murdered human rights activist Natalia Estemirova was dispersed by police. Read more hereTags: Tags: Chechnya, Natalia Estemirova, Russia,
July 15th, 2009
Natalia Estemirova, a researcher for Russian group memorial, has been found dead in Ingushetia. Read more hereTags: Tags: Chechnya, Ingushetia, memorial, Natalia Estemirova, Russia,
