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Russia Orders Retrial in Journalist's Murder

Supreme Court throws out acquittals in Politkovskaya case

By Jason Farago,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 25, 2009 5:33 AM CDT

(Newser) – Russia's Supreme Court has overturned the acquittals of three men in the murder of crusading journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and ordered a retrial, reports the BBC. Prosecutors claimed that judicial irregularities and misinformation led to an improper verdict, and Politkovskaya's newspaper colleagues have accused the police of shoddy work. Despite international attention in the case, neither the actual triggerman nor those who ordered the killing have been found.

Politkovskaya was shot in her apartment building in a 2006 killing that investigators have linked to her reporting. She exposed human rights abuses in Chechnya and was critical of the Kremlin.
Politkovskaya was shot in her apartment building in a 2006 killing that investigators have linked to her reporting. She exposed human rights abuses in Chechnya and was critical of the Kremlin.   (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
A woman holds a portrait of slain Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya last year during a rally to remember the second anniversary of her killing in downtown Moscow.
A woman holds a portrait of slain Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya last year during a rally to remember the second anniversary of her killing in downtown Moscow.   (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
Brothers Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, charged with the killing of Russian investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, now face retrial.
Brothers Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, charged with the killing of Russian investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, now face retrial.   (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in 2006.
Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in 2006.   (AP Photo/ITAR-TASS)
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