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| Redgrave Leads Campaign for Zakaev... |
| 2002-11-01 |
| British actress and Oh, Cheeze... We have Barbra, the Brits have Vanessa... The veteran campaigner, who was in the Danish capital for a Chechen conference earlier this week at which Zakayev was the main speaker, visited the Chechen envoy in his cell Thursday, October 31. Redgrave, who said Zakayev's arrest was politically motivated, also met with Copenhagen's police chief and the Chechen envoy's lawyers, one of whom said that Zakayev would not appeal his 13-day detention in the Danish capital. "But if the justice ministry approves his extradition, he will challenge the case in the Danish courts and in the last instance before the European Court of Human rights," his lawyer, Ervin Birk Nielsen, told journalists. Guess his arrest was politically motivated. So was the attack on the theater, wasn't it? Redgrave said Thursday the allegations against Zakayev were "absolutely untrue," AFP reported. And who should know better than she, because... ummm... "He is in no way connected with the terrorist attack on the Moscow theater or in any other acts of terrorism," she told DR1 public television. "He's not! He just couldn't be! He told me he's not, and he has such a nice beard..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |