UKRAINE JOURNALIST GONGADZE TRIAL IN COURT OF APPEAL IN KIEV

Former police officer Mykola Protasov stands in the defendant's cage guarded by court security during his trial at the Ukraine's appeal court in Kiev, January 9, 2006. Three former police officers are accused of the murder in 2000 of Ukrainian opposition journalist Georgy Gongadze, a killing seen as a landmark on the road to the "orange revolution" protests in the ex-Soviet nation. The death of Gongadze, whose headless corpse was found in a wood in November 2000, undermined the rule of then-President Leonid Kuchma, who faced accusations of covering up the killing. (UPI Photo/Sergey Starostenko)

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