May 26, 2012
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Group blames Chechen leader for murder of Russian activist
Natalia Estemirova
17 July 2009 / REUTERS, MOSCOW
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. A Kremlin spokeswoman said President Dmitry Medvedev was "outraged" and had ordered an investigation. Memorial's Chairman Oleg Orlov pointed the blame at Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, a former rebel turned Kremlin loyalist.
"I know, I am sure of it, who is guilty for the murder of Natalia... His name is Ramzan Kadyrov," he said in a statement on Memorial's Web site www.memo.ru late on Wednesday.
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