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Russian killer is freed from prison
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Russian convicted of killing Chechen woman is freed from prison

Reporting from Moscow -- A former Russian army colonel convicted of strangling an 18-year-old Chechen woman walked out of prison 15 months early on Thursday despite an outcry from lawyers and human rights activists.

Yuri Budanov snatched Kheda Kungayeva from her father's house during a late-night raid in 2000, killed her inside his tent and ordered underlings to secretly bury the body. In court, he said he went temporarily insane and strangled her in a fit of rage because he mistakenly believed she was a sniper.

In a country where public dissent has become a rare commodity, Budanov's release sparked street protests among outraged Chechens, complaint from the Moscow-backed Chechen president -- and even a statement from the provincial Russian prison expressing official disapproval of the decision to free the convicted killer.

The Kungayev family maintains that the young victim was raped and that the government suppressed evidence of a crime sure to inflame tension in the restive Caucasus region. An autopsy report viewed by The Times in 2001 indicated that rape had taken place, saying that Kungayeva's hymen had been torn an hour before her death.

A military investigator later dismissed the rape accusation, saying that the body had been "desecrated" after death by one of the men who had been ordered to bury the corpse. The government produced a second autopsy report, this one dismissing the possibility of rape.

The Kungayev family's lawyer told Russian reporters that the officer convinced the court that he had repented of the crime and intended to compensate the family.

Kungayev, speaking from Norway, where he moved with his wife and four surviving children, said that, except for death threats purporting to come from Budanov, he has never heard from the officer.

"The only thing I got from him was a promise to kill me," Kungayev said. "He never repented. He never said even a word of apology. He didn't send even a kopeck in compensation."

Even Kadyrov, a former separatist fighter who later became a loyal Kremlin backer, has spoken out against Budanov's release.

"Even if he repented, someone convicted for such a brutal and cynical killing of an innocent underage schoolgirl should not be granted parole," Kadyrov said this week, Interfax reported. "Moreover, he deserves a more severe punishment."

Chechnya's human rights ombudsman, Nudri Nukhazhiev, has released evidence he says links Budanov to several other killings during his tour in Chechnya and has called on prosecutors to open a new case against him.

"Budanov is a criminal who represents a danger to society," Nukhazhiev said in a statement. "He is capable of committing further crimes and should be imprisoned for life."

Human rights groups say that between 3,500 and 5,000 people remain missing since the second Chechen war. The Kungayeva kidnapping was a rare case that found its way to court.

"You can feel the air of very, very bitter disappointment all around you in Grozny," said Natalia Estemirova, Grozny representative for the human rights group Memorial. "The decision to pardon Budanov is really a shattering experience for the Chechen people. It's a serious political mistake."



 
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