Anna Politkovskaya

Human Rights Journalist Assassinated for Her Work - standing up for human rights

As the principal voice for the victims of Russia's war in Chechnya, Anna Politkovskaya continued to report from the war's frontlines, even after death threats forced her to flee Moscow several times. In October, 2006, she was gunned down in the elevator of her apartment building in Moscow. Not only did she write regular articles exposing the torture and abductions common in the 'dirty war' in Chechnya, but she was a human rights activist who helped soldiers mothers in court and rescued elderly residents trapped in Grozny, Chechnya's capital.

"Russia continues to be infected by Stalinism," she told The Washington Post a few months before her murder. "But it seems to me that the rest of the world has been infected along with it."

Standing up for the principles of the Universal Declaration
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights protects "the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas" In addition, Article 20 affirms that "Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association."

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