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The Prosecutor General\'s Office will not release the body of the late Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov to his family, Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel told journalists on Friday. \"The law on the fight against terrorism bans the bodies of terrorists from being released to their relatives. They are buried in unmarked graves,\" Shepel said.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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