tagged w/ Anna Politkovskaya
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Articolo tratto da Per questo, una raccolta di articoli (anche inediti) di Anna Politkovskaja pubblicato da Adelphi il 4 novembre: "Di tutti i libri di Anna Politkovskaja, questo, uscito dopo il suo assassinio, è il più tragico e potente: ci dice infatti il perché di un destino, consentendo di leggere in successione le cronache che nel tempo hanno decretato la fine di una vita".Articolo tratto da Per questo, una raccolta di articoli (anche inediti) di Anna... more
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Nuovi morti in Cecenia all'indomani della visita di Vladimir Putin, che doveva trasmettere ulteriore sostegno a Kadyrov. La loro alleanza è solo riuscita a mettere a tacere gli oppositori di governo.
E la Corte Suprema della Sharia dell'Emirato del Caucaso ha condannato a morte Akhmed Zakaiev, esponente storico degli indipendentisti che vive in esilio a Londra.Nuovi morti in Cecenia all'indomani della visita di Vladimir Putin, che doveva... more
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There's another victim of the Chechen question: is Natalia Estemirova. She was a journalist and she was working for the Russian non-governmental organization Memorial. She won the Anna Politkovskaya award in 2007 when she said "nothing has been done to investigate the crimes committed in Chechnya since 2000".
The truth on her murder will never arrive. As Anna, she was killed because she was trying to do her job.There's another victim of the Chechen question: is Natalia Estemirova. She was a... more
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(CNN) -- A Moscow court has opened a preliminary hearing Monday in the trial of three men accused of being involved in a plot to murder Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
Politkovskaya, a Kremlin critic, was shot dead outside her home in the Russian capital on 7 October, 2006.
Prosecutors say the man accused of pulling the trigger, Rustam Makhmudov, has fled the country, The Associated Press reported. The suspects being tried on murder charges are Sergei Khadzhikurbanov -- a former Moscow police officer -- and Makhmudov's brothers, Ibragim and Dzhabrail.
Politkovskaya came to prominence internationally for exposing the brutality of Russian forces and human rights abuses in Chechnya -- extremely embarrassing for former president, and now prime minister, Vladimir Putin.
In 2004, she was a joint winner of the Olof Palme Prize for human rights work.
Her death was described by media reports in Russia at the time as a contract-style killing. A CCTV camera captured a man in a white baseball cap entering the building a few moments before she was shot three times in the chest and once in the head.(CNN) -- A Moscow court has opened a preliminary hearing Monday in the trial of three... more
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The lawyer representing the family of Anna Politkovskaya, the murdered Russian journalist, was recovering from an apparent attempt to poison her as the trial opened today of three men accused of involvement in the killing.
A judge in Moscow rejected a request to postpone the preliminary hearing because Karinna Moskalenko was ill in France, where police are investigating the discovery of a large quantity of mercury in her car.
Ms Moskalenko also represents Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed former Yukos founder, who is appealing againts a refusal to release him on parole after serving more than half of an eight-year prison sentence for fraud.
She told The Times that her husband had found large numbers of silvery metal globules under the seat of her car on Sunday, almost exactly two years after Mrs Politkovskaya’s death. She was waiting for the results of police tests to confirm whether she had been poisoned with mercury.
“The machinery of the state is probably now so angry with my activities, but I still don’t know whether we have grounds to link this to my work. I don’t know if it is a demonstrative act to threaten me,” she said from her home in Strasbourg.
“I am quite weak now and have been sick since Friday. I am really angry that I could not come to the Politkovskaya case, I was effectively prevented from coming.” The discovery has prompted speculation that she could have been the target of an attempt to silence her over the case. Exposure to high levels of mercury can damage the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, immune and nervous systems.
Mrs Politkovskaya was a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, then the President, and was killed on his birthday in October 2006 by a gunman outside her home. Mr Putin has denied any state involvement in the killing.
more at link.....The lawyer representing the family of Anna Politkovskaya, the murdered Russian... more
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