Over 60 celebrities and dignitaries have signed a letter calling on Russia to bring the killers of journalist Anna Politkovskaya to justice.
The letter's signatories include the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Desmond Tutu, the American actress Susan Sarandon and the British playwright Harold Pinter, and the widows of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl and Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko.
We call on the Russian government to bring to justice, in full conformity with international standards, both those who killed Anna Politkovskaya and those who have ordered her murder.
We also call on the world's leaders to pledge to do everything in their power to protect the journalists and human rights defenders who work in areas of war and conflict, and who speak out on behalf of the victims, as Anna did.
We owe it to the memory of Anna to protect the very few who still speak out, on behalf of those to whom nobody wants to listen.
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The problem with Russia, is that they never got rid of the KGB in the 90's.
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