Killers of Politkovskaya will die in prison
The Moscow city court has sentenced to life imprisonment Lom-Ali Gaytukaeva. He was found guilty of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Among other things in life imprisonment sentenced the perpetrator of the murder of Politkovskaya Rustam Makhmudov.
The jury may 20 the bulk of the votes passed sentence on the case, recognizing all the defendants guilty and most - not deserve leniency. Public prosecution believes that the killers of Anna Politkovskaya deserve life in prison. The lawyers of the defendants continued to insist on the innocence of their own visitors.
"The Prosecutor's office has asked the Moscow city court to sentence the accused in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a native of Chechnya Lom-Ali Gaytukaeva, to life imprisonment", - quotes "Interfax" the statement of the Prosecutor's office. A life term prosecutors demanded to sentence and a specific professional murder of Rustam Makhmudov. As explained by the Prosecutor Boris Laktionov, the state prosecution insists that gaitukayev Makhmudov and must serve a sanction in the colony of special regime.
The Tribunal jury also recognized brothers Ibragim and Gabriel Mahmudovich guilty of complicity in the offence. The Prosecutor's office believes that they should be sentenced to 15 and 19 years in a strict regime penal colony. A former employee of the Moscow police Department Sergei Hadjikurbanov, which, as they say, monitored the preparation for the offence in Moscow, the state prosecution demanded to sentence to 22 years in strict regime colony.
Anna Stavitskaya as adept victims said that he wants to leave the penalty at the discretion of the court. However for brothers Jabrail and Ibragim Mahmudovich she asked to be lenient and to sentence them to a solution in the colony 8 and a half and 8 years respectively. Gabriel brought the killer to the scene of the offence, and Ibrahim warned of the approach of the journalist to the house.
Journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a famous self-reports about the situation in Chechnya, was shot dead in the stairwell of a building October 7, 2006. The customer offences is still not found. The official representative of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin has promised that the Agency would continue the search for and adopt comprehensive measures to establish the customer's murder.
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