Chechen envoy Akhmed Zakayev said he feared for his life if Russian authorities win their bid on Thursday to extradite him from Britain to face charges of waging war and murder. Zakayev told BBC television there was no chance of him getting a fair trial in Russia. "There are several representatives of Chechnya who found themselves in the hands of the Russian authorities. Some of them disappeared without trace, without trial," he said. "Those who were tried ... would be sent to prison or to a camp or disappear ... and I think the same fate would await me."
Many of us are hoping so...
Russia charges the Chechen former actor and one-time fighter with waging war against it and involvement in a series of alleged murders and abductions - charges he denies. Zakayev said Chechnya's rebel leadership was not involved in a bomb attack on the pro-Russian Chechen Government headquarters in Grozny last month or in a Moscow theatre hostage siege in October. Zakayev expects Britain to reach the same conclusion on his extradition as Denmark, which freed him last month, saying Russia had presented insufficient evidence to extradite him.
I think it would be very nice of the Brits to hand Zakayev over to the Russers, myself. They might not kill him, y'know. But if they do, I'm sure they'd give him a very nice, if unpublicized, funeral. 
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