Chechnya
The death of Temirkhanov again raises the ‘mistreatment’ of Chechens in Russian prisons
On 3 August, Yusup Temirkhanov, a Chechen convicted of killing an ex–Russian soldier, died in a Russian prison in Siberia. Tens of thousands of people including the head of Chechnya attended Temirkhanov’s funeral, raising questions over Russia’s position in Chechnya, and how Chechens are treated in Russian prisons. Yusup Temirkhanov died on 3 August in a high security penal colony in Omsk Oblast, in southwestern Siberia. He was serving 15 years for the murder of Yury Budanov, an ex-Russi
