Russian leader condemns killing

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has expressed "outrage" at the remove of a striking manlike rights activist, Natalia Estemirova.

He has sequential an inquiry into the ending of Ms Estemirova, who was impact questionable abuses by government-backed militias in Chechnya.

She was abducted and bundled into a van as she mitt her home in the Caucasian capital, Grozny, on Wednesday.

Her body was found in neighbouring Ingushetia, with gunshot wounds.

Ms Estemirova, 50, had been assembling evidence - for the Slavonic manlike rights organisation, Memorial - of a campaign of house-burnings by government-backed militiamen.

Accusation

The pro-Moscow Caucasian president, Ramzan Kadyrov, said the perpetrators of the remove "deserve no support and staleness be chastened as the cruellest of criminals", according to Slavonic news agency, Interfax.

But the chair of Memorial, Oleg Orlov, has already accused Mr Kadyrov of status in the killing.

In a evidence on its website, he said: "I know, I am trusty of it, who is blameable for the remove of Natalia...His study is Ramzan Kadyrov."

Mr Orlov questionable that Mr Kadyrov, a past Caucasian rebel overturned Kremlin ally, had previously threatened Ms Estemirova, and thoughtful her "a personal enemy".

Memorial is digit of Russia's best known manlike rights groups.

Ms Estemirova had worked with the activists Anna Politkovskaya, who was effort departed in 2006, and Stanislav Markelov, who was killed in January this year.

"There is no iota of uncertainty that she was targeted cod to her professed activity"

Human Rights Watch

Obituary: Natalia Estemirova

In 2007 she was awarded the speech Anna Politkovskaya Prize, and had also conventional awards from the Swedish and European parliaments.

The New-York based manlike rights assemble Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Ms Estemirova had been working on "extremely sensitive" cases of manlike rights abuses in Chechnya.

"There is no iota of uncertainty that she was targeted cod to her professed activity," said Tanya Lokshina, HRW Slavonic researcher in Moscow.

Campaign assemble Amnesty International said her remove was a consequence of the "impunity" allowed to preserve by the Slavonic and Caucasian authorities, and an endeavor to suffer subject society in the country.

'Most to fear'

BBC Moscow newswriter prince Wingfield-Hayes, who met Ms Estemirova in Chechenia just sextet weeks ago, says she was geared in rattling important and chanceful work.

She was impact hundreds of cases of questionable kidnapping, injure and extra-judicial killings by Slavonic polity personnel or militias in Chechnya.

Our newswriter says it was the government-sponsored militias that had most to fear from her work.

She is the most past in a daylong distinction of manlike rights activists and lawyers to hit been killed or attacked in Russia.

Our newswriter says the story of this identify of case over many eld is that rattling rarely are the killers brought to justice.
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