A picket organized by the regional Memorial branch in memory
of human rights activist Memorial’s Natalya Estemirova kidnapped
in Grozny, Chechnya, and killed in Ingushetia on July 15,
2009, took place in Ekaterinburg.
Maxim Petlin, leader of Sverdlovsk YABLOKO, Alexander Kalkh,
Chair of the Perm Memorial branch, Tatyana Merzlyakova, Ombudsman
in the Sverdlovsk region, activists of the Movement Against
Violence (Glec Edelyev) and Interregional Centre for Human
Rights (Vladimir Shaklein) participated in the picketing.
The picket ended by a demonstration along the main street
of the city and demonstration of a documentary “Aldy: Without
Limitations Period” (a joint production by Memorial and YABLOKO)
devoted to killings of civilians on February 5, 2000, the
Noviye Aldy village in Chechnya. The film basis on the materials
obtained by Natasha Estemirova with a risk to her life.
The original (in Russian)and
photos
See also:
Action in
memory of Natalya Estemirova took place in Nevsky Prospect,
St.Petersburg. Press Release. July 16, 2010
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