• Lengthy Prison Sentences in Israilov Case

    June 2, 2011 | admin

    After a six and a half month trial on the murder of Chechen refugee Umar Israilov, the Vienna Criminal Court (Landesgericht für Strafsachen) in Austria returned three guilty verdicts.

  • Witness Does Not Remember Anything Due to Fear

    January 19, 2011 | admin

    The trial of the three perpetrators in the murder of Umar Israilov continued today with further testimony before the Vienna Criminal Court (Landesgericht für Strafsachen) in Austria.

  • Trial in Vienna Continues

    November 23, 2010 | admin

    The trial related to the murder of Umar Israilov in Vienna continues in Austria.

  • Trial Against Kadyrov’s Hitmen Begins in Austria

    November 17, 2010 | admin

    On November 16th, three Kadyrovites went on trial in Austria in connection with the murder of Chechen refugee, Umar Israilov, in 2009.

  • Murder in Vienna Leads Investigators to Kadirov

    June 25, 2010 | admin

    In January 2009, an asylum seeker from Chechnya was gunned down in front of a supermarket in Vienna. Austrian investigators now say that their inquiries have led them to suspect that [puppet] Chechen President Ramzan Kadirov may have been behind the slaying. Their findings could strain relations between Europe and Russia.

  • Investigation Links Critic’s Death to Top Chechens

    April 26, 2010 | admin

    Umar S. Israilov, a whistleblower living in hiding after accusing Chechnya’s pro-Russian president of personally participating in torture, kidnapping and murder, was gunned down here last year as he stepped from a grocery store with yogurt, eggs and bags of M&M’s and Gummi Bears for his three young children.