Rally commemorating slain lawyer, journalist held in Moscow
MOSCOW. Jan 19 (Interfax) - A demonstration in memory of slain lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova was held in central Moscow, departing at Tverskoi Boulevard and ending at Prechistenka Street, on Tuesday.
The demonstrators were holding photographs of Markelov and Baburova, flowers and banners with slogans that read: "To remember is to fight," "Fascism will not work!" Among the demonstrators were members of the LGBT community.
The march ended with the laying of flowers at Markelov and Baburova's murder scene outside building number one in Prechistenka Street.
For his part, Orthodox Christian activist Dmitry Enteo wrote on Twitter that he had been held after he "asked not to allow LGBT attributes at the march of the left."
Lawyer Markelov and Novaya Gazeta correspondent Baburova were killed outside the Kropotkinskaya metro station in Moscow on January 19, 2009.
Markelov had probed high-profile cases, involving, in particular, human rights abuses in Chechnya, and defended anti-fascists.
On May 6, 2011, the Moscow City Court sentenced Nikita Tikhonov to life in prison after the jury found him guilty of killing Markelov and Baburova. His common-law wife Yevgeniya Khasis was found guilty of abetting the murder and sentenced to 18 years. Experts classified both Tikhonov and Khasis as radical nationalists.
On July 24, 2015, the Moscow City Court sentenced the leader of the BORN radical organization, Ilya Goryachev, to life imprisonment. According to the inquiry, Goryachev orchestrated several murders, including that of lawyer Markelov.