07 Aug 09 | Index Index, minipost
A Russian court in Moscow refused a request from the family of Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya to halt a retrial of three men accused of being accomplices in her murder. Lawyers for the family of Politkovskaya, who was gunned down outside her apartment in 2006, had asked for the case to be returned to prosecutors and merged with an investigation into the mastermind behind the murder. The trial will resume in September. Read more here
05 Aug 09 | Index Index, minipost
The retrial of three men allegedly involved in the murder Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya opens before a military court today (5 August) in Moscow. They are former Moscow police officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, who is accused of helping to organise the contract-style killing, and two Chechen brothers, Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, who are accused of being accessories. They are being retried because prosecutors appealed successfully against their acquittal by a jury last February. But the main protagonists of Politkovskaya’s murder will not be in court tomorrow. They are the alleged the trigger-man, Rustam Makhmudov, who is on the run and believed to be abroad, and those who contracted the killing, whose identity is still unknown.
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25 Jun 09 | Index Index, minipost
Russia’s Supreme Court has overturned the acquital of three men charged with the murder of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya. A retrial has been ordered
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19 Feb 09 | News and features
Four men charged in connection with the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya have been acquitted by a Moscow court.
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