Nemtsov suspect likely confessed 'under torture'

Zaur Dadayev, a former Chechen police officer, who admitted taking part in the murder of Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov "likely confessed under torture", a member of the Kremlin's human rights council told AFP yesterday. The shooting of Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister and top Putin critic, just yards from the Kremlin was the highest-profile killing of an opposition leader during Putin's fifteen years in charge.