Topic: Natalya Estemirova

Anotherhuman rights activist has been murdered, another mother is dead,another voice of conscience has been silenced by bullets.TodayNatalya Estemirova was kidnapped and killed by two bullets in thehead. Not one murderer has been tried or foundguilty in any of these ...
Russia has identified the killer of rights activist Natalya Estemirova, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday, exactly one year after her murder in the Caucasus.Responding to criticism that Russia has been slow to find the truth behind the crime, Medvedev said ...

Russia 'identifies killer' of activist Estemirova

Russia has identified the killer of rights activist Natalya Estemirova and the assassin is now the target of an international search, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday."The perpetrator of this murder -- the killer -- has been uncovered and definitively identified. He is ...
Aliskhan Pliyev was talking on his cell phone with his girlfriend one autumn afternoon when two dozen masked men in uniforms stormed into his family's house, grabbed him and began to hustle him away.The 30-year-old construction worker's three sisters ...
UN rights panel: So increasingly, some are working quietly or have abandoned their efforts altogether.On Friday a new U.N. Human Rights Committee report on Russia called for a series of sweeping legal reforms, saying the country is still struggling to ...
Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader wins defamation lawsuit against rights activistChechnya's Kremlin-backed leader Ramzan Kadyrov on Tuesday won a defamation lawsuit against a rights activist who blamed him for the killing of a colleague whose murder sparked international outrage.Moscow's Tverskoi ...
The head of Russian rights group Memorial insisted Friday that the strongman leader of Chechnya was responsible for the murder of activist Natalya Estemirova, as he went on trial for defamation.Soon after the leading Memorial activist was killed in July, rights ...
Russian rights activist visits slain colleague's Chechnya grave, fears justice won't be doneA leading Russian human rights activist paid an emotional visit Sunday to the cemetery where her slain colleague Natalya Estemirova is buried, weeping at her grave and predicting ...

Head of children's charity shot dead in Chechnya

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The kidnapped head of a children's charity and her husband were found murdered in the boot of a car in Russia's Chechnya Tuesday in the latest in a string of killings in the troubled Muslim republic.The bodies ...

Rights activist, husband killed in Chechnya

A Russian NGO chief and her husband were found shot dead in Chechnya on Tuesday, their bodies stuffed into a car boot, in the latest killing to shake activists in the conflict-torn Caucasus.The murder of the head of Let's Save ...