Human rights activists of Memorial back in Chechnya

17.12.2009

Human rights activists from the center Memorial are going to return to Chechnya and renew their activities stopped this summer in July because of the murder of Natalya Estemirova, one of the members of the organization. Human rights activists are referring to the people who anyway need their help.

According to Yulia Klimova, Memorial’s spokesperson, they are going to resume human rights monitoring in the region first of all and carry out legal assistance to the injured people, e.g. legal support of the applications to the European Court of Human Rights.

Relationship between the members of Memorian and administration of the Chechen Republic, especially with Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of Chechnya, are badly strained relations last time, after one of the members of the organization said Kadyrov was guilty in Natalya Estemirova’s death.