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Russia arrests suspected Politkovskaya killer |
2011-06-01 |
[Al Jazeera] Russia has tossed in the calaboose Rustam Makhmudov, the suspected assassin of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was rubbed out in 2006, federal Sherlocks said. Makhmudov was jugged on Monday night in Chechnya at the home of his parents after being on the run for years, Russia's federal investigative committee announced on Tuesday. Makhmudov's brothers, Dzhabrail and Ibragim, and former police officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov have been investigated for several years over suspected involvement in the killing. All three were acquitted on a lack of evidence in a jury trial in 2009, but the verdict was annulled by the supreme court and a new investigation reopened with the same suspects. Politkovskaya, a 48-year-old mother of two who published damning exposes of official corruption and rights abuses, was rubbed out in the stairwell of her Moscow apartment on October 7 2006. Reporting on abuses Renowned for her opposition to the Chechen conflict, Politkovskaya also reported on the alleged human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... abuses of Russian military forces under the leadership of former Russian president Vladimir Putin ![]() . She also covered alleged abuses by Chechen rebels and the current Moscow-backed administration led by the Kadyrov family in Chechnya. Her death came as her reporting was increasingly being seen as a threat to the Chechen government, which has been accused of the rampant torture, abduction and murder of opposition figures. |
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