Anna Politkovskaya

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Person.png Anna PolitkovskayaRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(journalist, writer, activist)
Anna Politkovskaya.jpg
Victim ofassassination

Anna Politkovskaya was known for her opposition to the Second Chechen War and blamed the FSB for the Russian apartment bombings.

Assassination

She was gunned down in front of her apartment on 7 October 2006. As of 2016 Wikipedia reports that in June 2014 five men were sentenced to prison for the assassination, but it is still unclear who ordered or paid for the killing.

 

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Document:Outrage over killing of journalists is essentialArticle11 November 2018Muhammad Idrees AhmadAbove all we need to protect the laws and institutions which would have protected Anna Politkovskaya, Marie Colvin and Jamal Khashoggi had they been universal. We need to treat a threat to journalists anywhere as a threat to journalists everywhere.
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