I found this in Russian and had to translate it so the English is not 100% right but I think you'll get the picture.

Natalia Estemirova was born in the Saratov region. Graduated from Faculty of History University of Grozny. Prior to 1998, worked as a teacher of history in Grozny school, then take the human rights journalism. At the beginning of the second Chechen war, worked in Grozny, in 2000 - worked for the representation of the Human Rights Center «Memorial» Grozny. In 2004 the prize was awarded the Swedish Parliament «The right to exist», the so-called Alternative Nobel Peace Prize, established by the Parliament of Sweden for its outstanding views and work on behalf of mankind. Kidnapped and murdered on 15 July 2009.



According to the head of the Moscow Bureau of Human Rights Watch Tatiana Lokshina, Estemirova abducted near her home in Grozny, about 08:30. Her colleagues in the defense of human rights raised the alarm when she did not come at the predetermined meeting came to the house, they found and interviewed witnesses. According to colleagues dead "Two witnesses saw from the balcony, as Bogdan Khmelnitsky street in Grozny, where Natasha, her zatolknuli a white vehicle VAZ, she managed to shout that its kidnapped".


As the press-secretary of the investigating committee procuratorial Russia, Vladimir Markin, the body of a woman with bullet wounds in the head and chest was found at 16:30 (according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia - in 17:20) for the time in Moscow 100 meters from the federal highway " Kavkaz "near the village of Gazi-Yurt district Nazranovskogo Ingushetia. In her bag were a passport, certificate of a member of the expert council of Staff of the Human Rights Ombudsman of Russia on the Chechen republic and the mandate of the observer commission on public control in places of detention in the name of Natalia Estemirova.