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07/01/17
Ceremony on 100th day after
Anna Politkovskaya's murder
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an international commission of enquiry
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On 15 January, Reporters Without Borders paid homage to slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in a ceremony outside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the 100th day after her murder on 7 October in 2006.
According to Reporters Without Borders, politicians, intellectuals and
friends took part in the event, some speaking of their memories of Politkovskaya
and the importance of her combative journalism. French philosopher Andre
Glucksmann said she was in a tradition of Russians who challenge the abuse
of power by their country's elite. "To those who worried about her,
she replied that she would not be the first to be crushed by the government
nor the last to resist," Glucksmann said.
Russian prosecutor-general Yuri Chaika has been put in charge of investigating
Politkovskaya's murder and 100 men have been assigned to the case, but
virtually nothing is known about what they have found out. A campaign about
this case must be maintained so that it is not hushed up.
Reporting Without Borders has called for signing to the petition in order
to create an international commission of enquiry. The following is the
appeal.
Justice for Anna Politkovskaya
We have all been shocked by the news of Anna Politkovskaya's murder. Her commitment to exposing authoritarian abuses in Vladimir Putin's Russia and the "dirty war" in Chechnya had made her a symbol of the West.
We are now demanding that the competent authorities - under the United
Nations or Council of Europe aegis for example - create an international
commission of enquiry in order to establish the truth about Anna Politkovskaya's
murder on 7 October in Moscow.
Twenty one journalists have already been murdered since Putin became Russia's
president in March 2000. Most of these murders has not been solved. The
murder of Politkovskaya, one of the few reporters to have covered the situation
in Chechnya since 1999, one who had received many international awards
for her work, has taken Russia across a new threshold of horror.
Sign the petition calling for an international commission of enquiry.
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You can take part in the petition on the website of Reporters Without Borders.
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