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three years earlier and was sentenced to 10 years in jail. He was paroled earlier this month.

Besides representing Kungayeva's family, Markelov had also started an independent investigation into a near-fatal attack on Mikhail Beketov, editor-in-chief of the local Khimki Pravda newspaper, who fought a campaign to protect a forest from destruction by real estate developers.

The Czech Republic, which currently holds the EU presidency, also called on the Russian authorities "to investigate Markelov's murder, as well as previous attacks on human rights activists, journalists and members of non-governmental organizations, and to bring those guilty to justice."



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