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               Chechnya Rights Activists' Office Attacked by Mob

   by Associated Press

   Human rights activists in Chechnya say that masked men bashed their way
   into the group's office, sending the occupants fleeing through the
   windows.

   The Committee against Torture wrote on its Twitter account on Wednesday
   that several young men, wearing surgical masks and armed with crowbars,
   attacked the group's office in the capital of Grozny. The employees
   escaped through the windows, the group said.

   The Committee against Torture is a leading and one of the few remaining
   human rights groups operating in Chechnya, governed by Kremlin-backed
   Ramzan Kadyrov.

   The group has aroused Kadyrov's ire before when it openly blamed him
   for persecuting the families of those who joined anti-government
   militants.
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