CHECHEN PRESIDENT DECREES DEATH SENTENCE FOR KIDNAPPING.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 3 Issue: 42

February 28, 1997 08:00 AM Age: 28 years

At a moment when Russia is under strong criticism from the Council of Europe for its failure to declare an official moratorium on the death sentence, Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov has issued a decree introducing capital punishment or life imprisonment for kidnapping. Kidnapping cases will be dealt with by Chechnya’s new Shariat courts, which dispense Islamic law. (Itar-Tass, February 28)

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