Lana Estemirova: "We could not save my mother. But we can save Oyub and we can save Memorial"

“We could not save my mother. But we can save Oyub and we can save Memorial. All it takes is for Russia’s president to pick up the phone and tell the authorities in Chechnya to get their hands off Oyub and Memorial. [...] Russia will be hosting the World Cup this summer… It will open on June 14. It will close on July 15 – that’s the ninth anniversary of my mom’s murder. Will this happen while Oyub is behind bars?”      - Lana Estemirova, daughter of the late Natalya Estemirova, Chechnya's most prominent human rights defender, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2009. Source: Tanya Lokshina, 'To Free a Human Rights Defender in Russia’s Chechnya,' Human Rights Watch, 15 May 2018