Chechen publisher and romantic Natalia Estemirova poses at the Front Line Club in London in this Oct 4, 2007 record photo.
Credit: Reuters/Dylan Martinez/Files
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A media rights watchdog on Saturday urged Russia to tell sum of the examine in to the attempted attempted murder of a rights workman after the Russian press reported that suspects had been identified.
The attempted attempted murder of human rights workman Natalia Estemirova in the flighty Chechnya region, where she was a outspoken censor of hardline Chechen personality Ramzan Kadyrov, sparked general condemnation, and pledges that her killers would be caught.
"For 7 months, authorities have been wordless about their efforts to compromise the heartless gangland slaying of the co-worker and we call on them right away to serve ventilate their progress," Nina Ognianova of the U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) pronounced in a statement.
Estemirova, 50, was kidnapped in Jul in Russia"s flighty Chechnya segment and shot. Her physique was dumped in woodland in adjacent Ingushetia.
News reports this week cited investigators as observant a think had been identified.
Rights workers contend the delayed review is symptomatic of Russia"s autochthonous crime and lawlessness.
Estemirova worked at the Russian human rights organisation Memorial.
Kadyrov, an ex-rebel incited Kremlin loyalist, is indicted of woe and abductions by rights groups -- charges he has regularly denied.
CPJ says nineteen reporters have been murdered for their work given 2000 in Russia, that it ranks as the fourth majority dangerous nation for reporters after Iraq, the Philippines and Algeria.
(Reporting by Amie Ferris-Rotman; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
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