1. Natalya Khusainovna Estemirova was a Russian human rights activist and board member of the Russian human rights organization Memorial.
16 Facts About Natalya Estemirova
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Two witnesses reported they saw Natalya Estemirova being pushed into a car shouting that she was being abducted.
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Natalya Estemirova participated in the Organization of Filtration Camps Inmates as a press secretary.
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Natalya Estemirova visited many hospitals in Chechnya and Ingushetia, taking hundreds of photographs of child victims of the war.
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Natalya Estemirova was a frequent contributor to the independent Moscow newspaper Novaya Gazeta and the Caucasus news website Kavkazsky Uzel.
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Natalya Estemirova received the Right Livelihood Award as a representative of Memorial at a ceremony in the Swedish parliament building in 2004.
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Natalya Estemirova worked together with investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya and human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov, both of whom were murdered, in 2006 and 2009, respectively.
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Natalya Estemirova was abducted on 15 July 2009 from her home in Grozny, Chechnya.
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Two witnesses reportedly saw Natalya Estemirova being pushed into a car shouting that she was being abducted.
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Lokshina said Natalya Estemirova was abducted as she was working on "extremely sensitive" cases of human rights abuses in Chechnya.
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Human Rights Watch had demanded to the Kremlin and Ramzan Kadyrov that Natalya Estemirova be returned home safely.
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Natalya Estemirova was held for two hours and charged with disturbing the peace.
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The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, stationed in Moscow, reported that Natalya Estemirova was engaged in "very important and dangerous work", investigating hundreds of cases of alleged kidnappings, torture and extrajudicial killings by Russian government troops or paramilitaries in Chechnya.
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Natalya Estemirova said it was "obvious" to him that her murder was linked to her professional work.
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Natalya Estemirova condemned the killers, saying they "must be punished as the cruelest of criminals".
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Natalya Estemirova's murder was provoked by the people who murdered Politkovskaya and Litvinenko.