The Russian prosecutor-general’s office has filed an appeal before the supreme court against the acquittal of three men who were accused in connection with the 2006 murder of Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya. A jury found the three men not guilty on February 19 at the end of a trial before a Moscow military court.
“We point out that the Politkovskaya murder has not been solved,” Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said after teh appeal was filed on February 27. “The three men tried by the Moscow military court did not include the triggerman or the person who ordered the murder. The investigation should continue regardless of this decision.”
Politkovskaya was gunned down in the lobby of her Moscow apartment building on October 7, 2006.
