No progress in probe into Groznyy rights campaigner's murder - activists
Interfax
Moscow, 28 September: Human rights activists say that there has been no progress in the investigation into the killing of Natalya Estemirova, an activist of the Memorial human rights centre in Groznyy.
"Now I get a feeling that everything has stopped. There is just silence," Svetlana Gannushkina, a member of the Memorial council, told Interfax on Monday (28 September).
She said that a month ago human rights activists thought that the investigation was following the right path, and that, probably, it was getting on the assassins' trail.
"But now there are no detentions or interrogations. We are no longer being questioned. Nothing is happening," Gannushkina said.
Earlier Memorial said that pressure was being put on the criminal investigation into Estemirova's murder. Aleksandr Cherkasov, a member of the Memorial council and a witness in the case, said that because of pressure Memorial members had had to be evacuated from Chechnya. (Passage omitted).
