Tanya Lokshina is Russia Researcher, Human Rights Watch

Recent articles

Natalia Estemirova was Chechnya's great champion of human rights until her kidnap and murder last month. On the 40^th day after her death, her friend Tanya Lokshina of Human Rights Watch commemorates a uniquely courageous and selfless woman.

Human Rights Watch today publishes a report What Your Children Do Will Touch Upon You, a study of punitive house burning by the authorities in Chechnya.  In this summary Tanya Lokshina documents how family property is burnt down and lives destroyed in attempts to force alleged insurgents to surrender.

As human rights violations escalate in the North Caucasus, Tanya Lokshina of Human Rights Watch visits Dagestan, supposedly riven by the struggle between ‘Wahhabis' and the authorities. She visits the so-called ‘Wahhabi' village of Gudben. 

The Dagestani' Interior Ministry's sixth department, unable to catch the alleged terrorists they call ‘Wahhabis,' torture pious young men until they confess to anything. Human Rights Watch's Tanya Lokshina gives this harrowing report on one of most turbulent republics in Russia's Northern Caucasus

On 16 April the KTO, Chechnya's counterterrorism operation, was declared over. But Human Rights Watch's Tanya Lokshina is not celebrating. She is too busy documenting the ongoing disappearances and punishment being inflicted on the lives of ordinary Chechens