Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov says murdered rights worker ‘was not defending rights’

Murdered Chechen rights activist Natalia Estemirova did nothing for the Chechen people, the republic’s strongman leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Thursday. Estemirova was outside her home in the Chechen capital Grozny before her bullet-ridden body was found in a forest in July 2009. Rights group Memorial said Kadyrov was behind the murder, a claim it […]