Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev arrested in Poland

Russia has demanded the extradition of the London-based Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev after Polish police arrested him at a conference in Warsaw. Zakayev – who was granted political asylum by Britain in 2003 – was detained early this on his way to see the Polish chief prosecutor. He arrived in Warsaw on Wednesday to attend the World Chechen Congress, a meeting of Chechen exiles. Zakayev

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Zakayev is the most high-profile surviving Chechen separatist leader from the 1990s, when he served as deputy prime minister in the quasi-independent government of Aslan Maskhadov. The British court decision to give him asylum on the basis he might be tortured back in Russia infuriated the Kremlin,