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Russia: Investigate Murder of Prominent Rights Lawyer
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Publisher:  Human Rights Watch
Date Written:  23/01/09
Year Published:  2009  
Resource Type:  Article/Report/Letter

Russian authorities should immediately investigate the killing of Stanislav Markelov, a prominent Russian human rights lawyer, and bring his killers to justice, Human Rights Watch says.

Abstract:  Russia: Investigate Murder of Prominent Rights Lawyer
Markelov Sought Justice for Abuses in Chechnya

January 19, 2009

Russian authorities should immediately investigate the killing of Stanislav Markelov, a prominent Russian human rights lawyer, and bring his killers to justice, Human Rights Watch said today. Markelov was shot dead on the afternoon of January 19, 2009, on Prechistenka Street in central Moscow, and a newspaper intern with him was fatally wounded.

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