Three Men Acquitted in Journalist's Murder
Committee to Protect Journalists, February 19, 2009
Three defendants in the October 2006 murder of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya walked free out of the Moscow District Military Court after a jury unanimously acquitted them of helping to organize the crime. The state prosecution said it will appeal the verdict.
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