Russia - Neo-Nazi husband and wife go on trial for double murder of lawyer and journalist

Reporters without borders

The trial of two people accused of the murder of Stanislav Markelov, a human rights lawyer specialised in Chechnya, and Novaya Gazeta reporter Anastasia Baburova finally began this week in Moscow, nearly two years after they were gunned in the centre of Moscow on 19 January 2009 at the end of news conference by Markelov. Reporters Without Borders welcomes the fact that the judicial authorities are working to solve this murder but points out that there are various reasons for thinking that (...)

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