Helsinki Commission Calls for Added Protection in North Caucasus after Four Murders This Week

WASHINGTON—Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) and Co-Chairman Congressman Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL) issued the following statements today upon learning of the killings of four people in three days in Russia’s North Caucasus region. Aid worker Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband Alik Djabrailov were kidnapped and killed Monday in Chechnya. Criminals today also shot and killed Abdulmalik Akhmedilov, a journalist, in Dagestan and Construction Minister Ruslan Amerkhanov in Ingushetia.

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