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Action in memory of human rights activists murdered in Chechnya to take place in St.Petersburg

Press Release
August 12, 2009

An action in memory of Zarema Sadulayeva and Ali Dzabrailov who worked in the Let’s Save the Generation nonprofit organisation will take place on August 12 (at 7 p.m.) by Solovetsky Stone in St.Petersburg.

On August 11 Zarema Sadulayeva, head of the Let’s Save the Generation nonprofit organisation and her husband Ali Dzabrailov were kidnapped in midday when armed people came to their office saying that they represented law-enforcement bodies and took the activists with them. The next night the bodies of gunshot activists were found in the trunk of their car.

It is already the second case of murder of human rights activists for the past month in Chechnya. On July 15 Natalya Estemirova who worked in the Memorial human rights organisation was kidnapped and murdered in Grozny.

The action is initiated by public and human rights organisations of St.Petersburg:
Memorial research centre
Memorial human rights centre
St.Petersburg branch of YABLOKO
Public human rights organisation The House of Peace and Non-Violence
Bellona human rights centre
Civil Control Public human rights organisation
Human Rights Council of St.Petersburg and other.

See also:
Human Rights


Press Release
August 12, 2009