Relatives of Slain Chechen Leader Freed
From Times Wire Reports
Seven kidnapped relatives of Aslan Maskhadov, the former leader of Chechnya, returned to their village, said the human rights group Memorial and prosecutors in the Russian region. Maskhadov was killed by Russian forces in March.
The seven were abducted in December. One told a Memorial representative they were held in a small room at a military facility by Chechen-speaking guards. The relatives told Memorial that they were not interrogated or tortured.
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