1.0link234060<![CDATA[Top Chechnya Rights Defender is Brutally Slain]]>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/human-rights-watch/top-chechenya-rights-defe_b_234060.htmlNatalia Estemirova, a top human rights activist in the troubled Russian republic of Chechnya and a close colleague of Human Rights Watch, was abducted near her home in Grozny on the morning of July 15, 2009, carried off in a car as people on a nearby balcony heard her call for help. Her body was found later that day in the neighboring republic of Ingushetia.