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Doug the Dem

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Fri Jul 21, 2017, 12:02 PM Jul 2017

Daughter of slain Putin critic Nemtsov wants crime reclassified as political: Ifax

Source: Reuters

July 21, 2017 / 9:51 AM

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The daughter of murdered Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov has appealed the jail sentence of a man found guilty of killing her father and four accomplices, the Interfax news agency reported on Friday.

A Moscow court earlier this month sentenced Zaur Dadayev, a former soldier in Chechnya, to 20 years in jail for the murder and handed terms of between 11 and 19 years to four other men convicted of being his accomplices.

Nemtsov, one of President Vladimir Putin's most vocal critics, was murdered in 2015 as he walked across a bridge near the Kremlin after dining with his girlfriend. Aged 55, he had been working on a report examining Russia's role in the conflict in Ukraine. His killing sent a chill through opposition circles.

On Friday Interfax cited Olga Mikhailova, a lawyer for Zhanna Nemtsova, as saying she had asked the court to annul the sentences and return the case to prosecutors to have the crime reclassified from a contract killing to the murder of "a state or public figure."

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-nemtsov-idUSKBN1A61QW?il=0



Fun fact: the name "Zaur Dadayev" translated into English is Patsy.
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