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"Like Walking a Minefield"
People walk by a placard displaying a portrait of President Putin as they return from mass pro-Kadyrov rally organized by Chechen authorities in Grozny in January 2016. © 2016 Marsur Iskhanov
Placards with slogans in support of Kadyrov and against the “fifth column” left behind after mass pro-Kadyrov rally organized by Chechen authorities in Grozny in January 2016. © 2016 Marsur Iskhanov
Destroyed house belonging to a family of an alleged insurgent in Yandi village of Chechnya, December 2014. © 2014 Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Oeystein Windstad, a correspondent for Norway’s Ny Tid newspaper, after a mob attack on a bus carrying journalists. Ordzhenikidzevskaya, March 2016. © 2016 Timur Rakhmatulin/Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Severely injured bus driver, Bashir Pliev, in hospital in Ingushetia after the attack on a bus with Russian and foreign journalists on a work trip to Chechnya in March close to administrative border between Ingushetia and Chechnya. © 2016 Timur Rakhmatulin, Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Mass pro-Kadyrov rally organized by Chechen authorities in Grozny in January 2016. © 2016 Marsur Iskhanov
Men standing with signs “I’m for Kadyrov” and “Kadyrov is the Scourge of the Fifth Column” at a mass pro-Kadyrov rally organized by Chechen authorities in Grozny in January 2016. © 2016 Marsur Iskhanov
Women walking in the center of Grozny next to a building with portraits of Ramzan Kadyrov and Vladimir Putin. © 2013 Yulia Klimova
Destroyed house belonging to a family of an alleged insurgent in Yandi village of Chechnya, December 2014. © 2014 Committee for the Prevention of Torture
Mass pro-Kadyrov rally organized by Chechen authorities in Grozny in January 2016. © 2016 Marsur Iskhanov
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