Turkish news media say that three Chechens were shot and killed in Istanbul Friday. Reports quote witnesses as saying that one or more attackers fled the scene after shooting from a car. Further details were not immediately available. At least three other Chechens have been killed in attacks in Turkey since 2008. Chechen groups have […]
Austrian Court Convicts 3 in Chechen’s Murder
Posted June 1st, 2011 at 9:30 pm (UTC-5)
An Austrian court has convicted three Chechen-born men for their role in the 2009 murder of a former bodyguard, critical of Chechnya’s president Ramzan Kadyrov. The court in Vienna on Wednesday handed Otto Kaltenbrunner a life sentence in the shooting death of Umar Israilov, an ethnic Chechen. Suleyman Dadayev received a 19-year sentence and Turpal […]
