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Chechen activist Mansur Movlayev attempted to take his own life after spending a year and a half in a pretrial detention center in Almaty, Kazakhstan, his lawyer Vadim Drozdov told Novaya Gazeta Europe. Movlayev faces extradition to Russia, where activists say he could face persecution. The case highlights the risks faced by Russian and Chechen dissidents detained in third countries amid Moscow's continued pursuit of critics abroad.