Truly devastating news spread out across the world yesterday with the death of a Russian prominent human rights activist Natalia Estemirova. This kind of news certainly gives chills, especially when there is a noticeable string of successive killings of other Russian human rights activists.
In 2006, Anna Politkovskaya, a prominent activist and journalist was murdered in the elevator of her apartment building in Moscow. In January of this year, Stanislaw Markelov, another human rights activist and lawyer was assassinated after giving a press conference in Moscow. Now, Natalia Estemirova was killed in Chechnya.
The murder of Natalia Estemirova vociferously demands proper protection of Russian human rights activists who during their assignments in Russia or Chechnya put their own lives on the line in order to save others.
Will Russia be ever rescued from their own militias who at all cost want Russia to remain totalitarian?
Human Rights Watch
TEL: (1) 212 290-4700 (USA, New York)
E-mail: hrwnyc@hrw.org
Memorial (NGO where Natalia Estemirova was assigned)
TEL: (7) 495 650-7883 (Russia, Moscow)
E-mail: info@memo.ru
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