Committee to Protect Journalists informs on investigation of Anna Politkovskaya’s murder

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The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office that investigates murder of Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya instituted criminal proceedings against officers of Chechen interior ministry, Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists Joel Simon and The Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger inform citing the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Russian prosecution declined from comments. As Paul Steiger informed, “criminal proceedings have been instituted against several officers of Chechen police who could be involved in Anna Politkovskaya’s murder, as she had intended to publish an article on their possible involvement in tortures.”

The Chechen Interior Ministry denied information on involvement of Chechen police in murder of Politkovskaya and on instituting criminal proceedings against Chechen police officers, Vesti inform.

Anna Politkovskaya was killed on October 7, 2006, at an apartment block in central Moscow where she rented a flat.