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January 18, 2018

Russia: Ingushetia Human Rights Office Burned in Arson Attack
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In Russia, the office of a human rights group in the North Caucasus
region of Ingushetia was burned in an arson attack on Wednesday.
Surveillance video shows masked men climbing a ladder and setting fire
to the offices of the group Memorial, which has angered Russian
officials by reporting on torture, disappearances and punitive house
burnings in neighboring Chechnya. The arson came as a court in Chechnya
ordered the head of Memorial to be jailed for two months while he faces
drug charges that could see him imprisoned for up to 10 years. Oyub
Titiev says police planted marijuana in his car in order to manufacture
his arrest. Titiev's predecessor, Natalia Estemirova, was kidnapped and
murdered in 2009-a crime for which no one has been arrested.


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