1.0Committee to Protect Journalistshttps://cpj.orgCPJ Staffhttps://cpj.org/author/john/Russian daily says Politkovskaya reports spur Chechnya investigation - Committee to Protect Journalistsrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="C2X8q41nX9"><a href="https://cpj.org/2007/01/russian-daily-says-politkovskaya-reports-spur-chec/">Russian daily says Politkovskaya reports spur Chechnya investigation</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://cpj.org/2007/01/russian-daily-says-politkovskaya-reports-spur-chec/embed/#?secret=C2X8q41nX9" width="600" height="338" title="“Russian daily says Politkovskaya reports spur Chechnya investigation” — Committee to Protect Journalists" data-secret="C2X8q41nX9" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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New York, January 25, 2007—The Chechnya prosecutor’s office is investigating officers of the southern republic’s Interior Ministry in connection with articles by the slain investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, the Moscow business daily Kommersant reported Wednesday. The daily quoted Chechnya prosecutor Valery Kuznetsov as saying that Politkovskaya’s accounts of alleged torture last spring prompted his office…https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cpj-logo.png24001260