Retrial for Journalist’s Alleged Killers

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Retrial for Journalist’s Alleged Killers

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The Russian Supreme Court has ordered a retrial for the three men acquitted of murdering Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist who exposed human rights abuses in Chechnya. Politkovskaya, a leading critic of then-President Vladimir Putin, was one of many Russian journalists mysteriously silenced after speaking out against the government.

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A Russian Supreme Court judge overturned the acquittals of three men who had been charged with taking part in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. The reporter and human rights advocate had been a leading critic of the Russian government and its policy in Chechnya.

The Russian Supreme Court ordered a new trial for all three men who had been accused of involvement in the murder of prominent journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskya, who was shot and killed at her Moscow apartment building in 2006, had been a persistent critic of the country’s most powerful leaders including current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and reported widely on human rights abuses in Chechnya.

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By Russian Paul, June 25, 2009 at 3:32 pm Link to this comment

Sorry for going off on that tangent, I do take Russia’s human rights abuses seriously, but I think we need to worry more about our own much more subtle and unreported abuses here in the US.

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By Russian Paul, June 25, 2009 at 3:26 pm Link to this comment

For sure Russia cracks down on such outspoken people violently, but so do we. It just isn’t reported. Off the top of my head, I just thought of Mike Connell. He was the Republican IT consultant who helped “shunt” the votes in Ohio during the 2004 election. Many think that election was just as stolen as the previous one. He was scheduled to testify on this subject, even after allegedly receiving numerous threats from Karl Rove. He died in a mysterious plane crash soon before his scheduled court appearance. Of course this and other similar stories are shoveled so far beneath the mainstream media, they are easily dismissed as conspiracy theories. But of course, similar reports involving Russia, Iran, Venezuela, etc are widely circulated.

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