Russia - Justice still awaits in Politkovskaya murder

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders takes note of the sentences that a Moscow court passed yesterday on five men for their roles in leading investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya's October 2006 murder. The five were convicted on 22 May (see below). Hitman Rustam Makhmudov and his uncle, uncle, Lom-Ali Gaitukayev, who helped arrange the murder, were given life sentences. Sergei Khadzhikurbanov and Makhmudov's brothers, Dzhabrail and Ibragim, were sentenced to 20, 14 and 12 years in prison (...)

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