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| Memorial: kidnapped Chechen activist found dead |
| 2009-08-11 |
| The head of a Chechen aid group and her husband have been found shot dead in the trunk of their car a day after being kidnapped, police and an official of the Russian human rights group Memorial said Tuesday. Memorial's Alexander Cherkasov told The Associated Press that the bodies of Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband were found in a suburb of the Chechen capital, Grozny. A Chechen Interior Ministry spokesman said the bodies had gunshot wounds to the head and chest. The pair were taken from the office of Sadulayeva's group, Save the Generation, on Monday. The abductions followed last month's kidnapping and killing of another prominent rights activist, Nataliya Estemirova. Rights activists blame the forces of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov for abductions, killings and torture. Cherkasov said Sadulayeva's group was helping children in Chechnya, a region that has been devastated by two separatist wars over the last 15 years. |
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