Crossing Continents - Chechnya
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Lucy Ash investigates the treatment of women in Chechnya, after a series of murders and disappearances and in the light of the killing of human rights worker Natalya Estemirova.
A prominent human rights worker called Natalya Estemirova has been shot dead in the Russian republic of Chechnya. She was one of the people interviewed by Lucy Ash during her investigation of the treatment of women in Chechnya.
There are reports of the police failing to investigate the common practice of the abduction of women, and of a series of murders and disappearances of women allegedly because of their immoral lifestyle.
Lucy Ash asks what the uneasy peace there means for Chechen women.
- Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 8:30PM Mon, 20 Jul 2009
- Available until 12:00AM Thu, 1 Jan 2099
- First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 11:00AM Thu, 16 Jul 2009
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- Duration 30 minutes
