SOCIETY
CHECHEN SEPARATIST LEADER ZAKAYEV ARRESTED IN POLAND
Baku, September 17 (AZERTAC). Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev has been arrested in Poland where he was due to attend a two-day Chechen congress, police confirmed.
He had earlier been warned by Polish authorities he faced arrest because of a Russian warrant issued through Interpol.
Polish television said he was detained on his way to the prosecutor`s office in Warsaw.
A close aide had said he wanted to ask prosecutors why he was being sought.
Mr. Zakayev, who is wanted for alleged complicity in terrorism by Russia, was spokesman for Chechen separatist president Aslan Maskhadov, who was killed fighting Russian forces in 2005.
He has been living in the UK, where he was given political asylum in 2003 after successfully fighting extradition to Russia.
Moscow has accused him of armed rebellion, murder and kidnapping, dating back to the 1994 and 1999 wars between Russia and Chechen separatists.