Stanislav Markelov

Stanislav Yuryevich Markelov (Russian: Станисла́в Ю́рьевич Марке́лов; 20 May 1974 – 19 January 2009) was a Russian human rights lawyer. He participated in a number of publicized cases, including those of left-wing political activists and antifascists persecuted since the 1990s, as well as those of victims of police violence, journalists, etc. Inter alia, Markelov had been the attorney for the family of Elza Kungaeva, a young Chechen woman killed by Russian colonel Yuri Budanov, who was released from prison in mid-January, 15 months before his original sentence was to end. Markelov was murdered on 19 January 2009 in Moscow.

Personal facts

Stanislav Markelov
Birth dateMay 20, 1974
Birth nameStanislav Yuryevich Markelov
Birth place
Moscow , Soviet Union , Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Ethnicity
Russians
Date of deathJanuary 19, 2009
Place of death
Moscow , Russia

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External resources

  1. http://wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/mark-j23.shtml
  2. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/world/europe/20chechnya.html?th&emc=th
  3. http://www.robertamsterdam.com/2007/04/stanislav_markelov_-_russias_filtration_system.htm
  4. http://www.robertamsterdam.com/2008/12/stanislav_markelov_dont_read_this_book.htm
  5. http://www.ruleoflaw.ru/content/view/1/48