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Russian authorities have detained two suspects over the killing of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, it was claimed today, although her newspaper dismissed the report as “absolutely wrong".
Ms Politkovskaya, whose reports exposed human rights abuses in war-shattered Chechnya, was shot and killed in her Moscow flat last October – a killing that sparked an international outcry and highlighted the dangers in Russia for journalists who criticise the authorities or expose injustice.
The Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, citing unnamed sources close to the investigation, reported yesterday that two ethnic Chechens have been detained on suspicion of carrying out the killing. The report said the arrests were based on satellite photos taken shortly after the crime.
A spokeswoman for the prosecutor general’s office today declined to comment on the report.
Ms Politkovskaya’s Novaya Gazeta newspaper,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, however, strongly denied the report.
“Everything that was said is absolutely wrong,” deputy chief editor Sergei Sokolov said on Ekho Mosvky radio. He declined to provide further information on the investigation, citing his pledge not to disclose details of the probe.
The Chechen connection to Ms Politkovskaya’s killing has long been discussed.
Politkovskaya wrote passionately and critically about abuses by Russian and pro-Moscow Chechen forces fighting separatists in Chechnya,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, and Novaya Gazeta initially said the murder could have been masterminded by Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov or those who wanted to blacken him. Kadyrov vehemently denied the accusations.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said last month that they had been told by Russian foreign ministry officials that prosecutors were investigating whether Chechen police were involved in the killing.
Foreign Ministry officials later gave a different account, saying a separate investigation was under way, but that it was being conducted by prosecutors in Chechnya – not the Prosecutor General’s Office – and that it concerned allegations of abuse that Politkovskaya raised in an article published after her murder.
The prosecutor general’s office said they were conducting a single investigation into the killing and declined to disclose details.
Thirteen Russian journalists have been murdered in contract-style killings since 2006, making Russia the third most deadly country for journalists after Iraq and Algeria over the past 15 years,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, according to CPJ. None of the killings has been solved.