Five convicted for role in 2006 murder of Russian journalist
[JURIST] Five men were found guilty for their involvement in the 2006
murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya [BBC obituary; JURIST news
archive] in a Russian court on Tuesday.
Brothers Rustam, Ibragim and Dzhabrail Makhmudov, their uncle Lom-Ali
Gaitukayev, and former Moscow police officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov were
all convicted, but a mastermind behind the murder has yet to be named
[Reuters report]. Three of the men were acquitted in February 2009 due
to a lack of prosecutorial evidence, but the Russian...
[more].
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