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Zakaïev required the political asylum in London, according to one of its partisans Friday December 06, 2002 - 6h59 GMT MOSCOW, 6 déc (AFP) - Akhmed Zakaïev, the emissary of the independence president tchetchene Aslan Maskhadov, arrived to Great Britain where it asked the political asylum Friday morning, one of its partisans indicated to the radio operator Echo of Moscow. Zakaïev was briefly held on its arrival in an airport of London but given in freedom after payment of a guarantee by the actress Vanessa Redgrave, specified with radio operator Alexander Goldfarb, head of the Funds for civil freedoms...

Denmark cannot legally extradite Mr. Zakaïev (ambassador) Wednesday October 30, 2002 - 9h53 GMT MOSCOW, Oct. 30 (AFP) - Denmark cannot according to its laws extradite towards Russia the emissary of the independence president tchetchene Aslan Maskhadov, Akhmed Zakaïev, declared Wednesday the ambassador from Denmark in Moscow, Lars Vissing, on the radio operator Echo of Moscow. "Denmark does not have any treaty of extradition with Russia and even if it had one of them, we cannot extradite somebody towards a country where one applies the death penalty", explained the ambassador. Russia adopted a moratorium on the application of the...

The emissary of the president Maskhadov stopped(arrested) in Copenhagen On Wednesday, October 30th, 2002 - 6:32 am GMT COPENHAGEN, 30 oct (AFP) - The emissary of the Chechen independent president Aslan Maskhadov, Akhmed Zakaïev, was stopped(arrested) during the night of Tuesday to Wednesday in Copenhagen by the Danish police at the request of the Russian authorities, announced the police in a communiqué. He(It) is soupconné by Russia to be one from the planificateurs of the taking of hostages to the théatre of Moscow and to have participated in several terrorist actions, according to the Danish chain(channel) TV2. The Russian...