WARSAW, Poland - A Polish court has refused Russia's extradition request for Chechen separatist leader, Akhmed Zakayev, saying he is not in Poland anymore.
Zakayev was detained in Poland in September on a Russian warrant but was released the same day after a court rejected the warrant's validity before returning to Britain, where he is living in exile.
A Warsaw court said Thursday it can't extradite Zakayev because he has left the country.
Russia wants the 51-year-old Zakayev on terrorism, murder and kidnapping charges related to Chechnya's separatist wars of the 1990s, but Moscow has so far been unsuccessful in getting any country to extradite him.
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