Accquitals Reversed in Politkovskaya Murder Trial.

[Christine Murray]

This is good news the trial was a friggin'g farce, there will be a new trial. It is two and a half years
since the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, I have included her IWMF speech from 2002 regarding her
awareness of the danger she faced at the bottom of this post.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009...wt&twt=nytimes

Backround: http://www.politics.ie/blogs/dot/14-...tkovskaya.html
Feburary Accquitals : http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/wo...a.html?_r=2&hp

Anna's 2002 Speech : http://www.iwmf.org/article.aspx?id=473&c=press

Novaya Gazeta murders:http://www.politics.ie/foreign-affai...rs-russia.html

[Christine Murray]

The Defendants will go to the ECHR , stating that the motivation for reversal is political

BBC NEWS | Europe | Politkovskaya case to be retried

[fergalr]

The Defendants will go to the ECHR , stating that the motivation for reversal is political

BBC NEWS | Europe | Politkovskaya case to be retried

So was the acquittal, I'd imagine. I wonder how long Russia will stay in the Council of Europe. Does the ECHR's writ really run in Russia?

[Christine Murray]

they are Chechen, this is murky , a lawyer and trainee attached to Novaya Gazeta were murdered last year. He was linked to Politkovskaya via her work in Chechnya. Funnily enough those brutalised by the Chechen muppet don't really get access to ECHR nor indeed highly paid defence lawyers.

[Christine Murray]

bump : BBC NEWS | Europe | No halt to Politkovskaya retrial

[Christine Murray]

some backround via Novaya Gazeta Novayagazeta | November 27, 2008 ¹88 | THE SAME JUDGE AND JURY (MINUS ONE), BUT AN OPEN TRIAL

[Christine Murray]

God! Reuters is good for something:
Russia court orders new Politkovskaya murder probe - Yahoo! News

Indexoncensorship blog :Index on Censorship Blog Archive Court orders new Politkovskaya probe

The Supreme court in Moscow has ordered a new investigation into the murder of Anna Politkovskaya today. It will be
the third anniversary of her murder on October 6th 2009. (Vladimir Putin's Birthday)

[Christine Murray]

it is almost three years since the murder of Journalist and mother Anna Politkovskaya (she was murdered on Putin's birthday in 2006). A retrial has been ordered since this blog post : http://www.politics.ie/blogs/dot/14-...141#comment141 l thought l'd bump it given the ongoing Chechen political tragedy. IWMF : International Women's Media Foundation - Home

[The Caped Cod]

Great news. Let's hope it's not just another show trial for the international press. I think Russia found out that Journos, despite all their different views can be a force to be reckoned with if you go after one of their own. And rightly so. In the brief Georgian conflict, they found themselves completely painted as the aggressos by the western press. What should have been a great PR opportunity to see Russian tanks rolling to PROTECT people, turned intoa gient fùck you. Unfotunate that it's our perception of the story that suffers but perhaps they won't be so quick to pull the trigger in future. Perhaps...

[Christine Murray]

unfortunately the retrial will continue along the same lines as the initial trial and the family has objected. The journos at Novaya Gazeta (founded by Mikhail Gorbachev) have requested the right to bear arms and no-one is any nearer the truth of it : Index on Censorship Blog Archive Court orders new Politkovskaya probe