25 Jun 2009

Politkovskaya case retrial ordered

Russia's supreme court has ordered a retrial of three men cleared of being involved in the murder of prominent journalist Anna Politkovskaya in 2006.
Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, two brothers from Chechnya, and Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, a former police officer, had been found not guilty in February by a Moscow court, but the supreme court overturned the verdict on Thursday.

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"The supreme court has annulled the innocent verdict on the case of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. The case will be examined again with new jurors," Pavel Odintsov, the supreme court spokesman, said.
The three men had been accused of helping organise and arrange Politkovskaya's contract-style killing.

Al Jazeera