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Freelance journalist Kim Wall. A Danish court sentenced a man to life in prison for her killing in August 2017. (TT News Agency/Tom Wall/Reuters)

CPJ welcomes outcome in trial over killing of journalist Kim Wall

April 25, 2018 10:51 AM EDT

New York, April 25, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists today welcomed the outcome of a trial in Copenhagen at which Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen was convicted of killing freelance journalist Kim Wall on his submarine in August 2017. Madsen received the maximum sentence of life in prison, according to news reports.