Moscow, September 30, 2010--Top Russian investigators have pledged to pursue 19 cases of murdered journalists presented to them by a delegation from the Committee to Protect Journalists, reopening several closed cases and pursuing new leads in a number of other probes.
Kazakhstan, the
current chair of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, has
failed to live up to its press freedom commitments, CPJ’s
New York, December 11, 2009—A Russian police officer who fatally shot an online publisher
in government custody in 2008 was convicted of negligent homicide and sentenced
to two years in a low-security prison settlement today, Reuters
and other news agencies reported. The family of the victim, Magomed
Yevloyev, told CPJ they would appeal the verdict because their own
investigation showed that the officer purposely shot the editor. 
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