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From The Socialist newspaper, 21 January 2009

Lawyer assassinated

Stanislav Markelov, a well known human rights lawyer, was shot dead after he left a press conference in Moscow. He had just announced that he would fight against the early release of a former Russian tank commander jailed for murdering a Chechen woman.

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