As a key witness in a rare case brought against the Chechen authorities for abduction and torture, Magomed Gadaev fled Russia in 2010.
He had sought safety in France, but on April 9, France deported the 36-year-old Chechen asylum seeker.
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Chechen refugees try to warm themselves while selling some food in a refugee camp on the Chechen-Ingush border, near the village of Sleptsovskaya, 06 January 2000. Russia captured the main train station in Grozny and opened an airborn assault on a key mountain stronghold but said it was taking heavy losses in its drive to reassert control over Chechnya. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV / AFP)
