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| A prominent Russian human rights activist, Natalia Estemirova, has been found dead in the North Caucasus. | A prominent Russian human rights activist, Natalia Estemirova, has been found dead in the North Caucasus. |
| She was bundled into a van and abducted as she left her home in Chechnya on Wednesday morning, a colleague said. | She was bundled into a van and abducted as she left her home in Chechnya on Wednesday morning, a colleague said. |
| Her body was later found in neighbouring Ingushetia with two bullet wounds to the head, according to an Ingush interior ministry spokeswoman. | |
| Ms Estemirova had been investigating human rights abuses in Chechnya for the Memorial group. | Ms Estemirova had been investigating human rights abuses in Chechnya for the Memorial group. |
| She had worked in the past with the activists Anna Politkovskaya, who was shot dead in 2006, and Stanislav Markelov, who was killed in January this year. | |
| In 2007 she was awarded the Anna Politkovskaya prize by the Nobel Women's Initiative, and had also received awards from the Swedish and European parliaments, Memorial said. |