YABLOKO to commemorate murdered anti-fascists
Press release, 18.01.2017
Tomorrow, January 19, YABLOKO leaders and activists will lay flowers at the site where lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were murdered eight years ago.
Every year party activists bring flowers and candles at the site in order to commemorate the murdered anti-fascists.
The murderer attacked Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova on January 19, 2009, on Ulitsa Prechistenka, Moscow. He shot them in the head. Markelov died at the scene, Baburova died in hospital later that day.
Neo-Nazis Nikita Tikhonov and Evheny Khasis, who were suspected of the murder, were apprehended in November 2009. In 2011 Tikhonov was sentenced to life imprisonment, Khasis was sentenced to 18 years in prison. In 2015 Ilya Goryachev, the leader of the BORN nationalist organization, was sentenced to life in prison for arranging the murder of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova.
Posted: January 18th, 2017 under Human Rights.