CHECHNYA POSTPONES PLANNED EXECUTIONS.
Publication: Monitor Volume: 3 Issue: 167
The Chechen authorities have postponed the public executions, scheduled for today, of two people who had been found guilty of murder by one of Chechnya’s new Islamic courts. (Itar-Tass, September 10) Last week’s public executions of a man and a woman in Djohar-gala provoked a storm of public protest in Russia and other countries.
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