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HR group blames Chechen president for the murder of Natalia Estemirova

July 16, 2009

By Aydar Buribayev and Amie Ferris-Rotman , Reuters, July 15, 2009

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A human rights group blamed Chechnya’s president for the kidnap and murder of a prominent activist, the latest in a series of slayings of establishment critics in Russia.

Natalia Estemirova, a close friend of murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, worked for the human rights organization Memorial in the Chechen capital Grozny and documented abuses by law enforcement agencies.

She was abducted on Wednesday in Chechnya and her body was found later in woodland in neighboring Ingushetia.

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