CHECHNYA POSTPONES PLANNED EXECUTIONS.

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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