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The Swedish EU presidency has urged Russia to protect its NGO community after a string of killings of human rights activists in Chechnya. The EU statement comes after the bodies of Alik Dzhabrailov and his wife Zarema Sadulayeva, who worked for the children's...
Tags: human rights, Chechnya, Grozny, rights activists, Russia, Alik Dzhabrailov, Swedish EU, end impunity, capital grozny, Zarema Sadulayeva
Unidentified armed men abducted the head of Let's Save the Generation, Zarema Sadulayeva, and her husband from the offices of the young people's NGO on Monday afternoon (local time), Mr Cherkasov said. The Interfax news agency quoted interior ministry...
Tags: Chechnya, Zarema Sadulayeva, Alik Dzhabrailov, Russian, Grozny, human rights, shot dead, rights activists, aid worker, capital grozny
Chechnya was engulfed by two wars since the break-up of the Soviet Union but has returned to relative calm in the last four years. Violence has become more frequent in nearby regions, notably Ingushetia, in 2008. In the latest attack, an explosion went...
Tags: Chechnya, Grozny, police officers, capital grozny