article_snippet: She was a vocal critic of Russia's war in Chechnya.
article_snippet: The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said She work chronicling human rights abuses in Chechnya led to threats against She and angered Russian authorities.
article_snippet: The Chechnya-based human rights activist was kidnapped outside The Chechnya-based human rights activist home there in July 2009 and found dead in the neighboring Russian republic of Ingushetia later the same day.
article_snippet: Estemirova had spent years investigating human rights abuses in Chechnya.
article_snippet: The Chechnya-based human rights activist told CNN in 2007 that The Chechnya-based human rights activist was investigating dozens of abductions and murders that had become the norm in Chechnya, where security forces were fighting a dirty war against separatist rebels.
article_snippet: The Chechnya-based human rights activist death drew the ire of European leaders.
article_snippet: The Guardian reported shortly after Estemirova's death that Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov and Ramzan Kadyrov aides had threatened The Chechnya-based human rights activist.