MOSCOW, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- The three men suspected of being involved in the 2006 death of independent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow are innocent, a jury said.
A Moscow jury Thursday acquitted former Moscow police officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, along with Ibragim and Dzhabrail Makhmudov, on murder charges in Politkovskaya's death, CNN reported.
Politkovskaya, an outspoken critic of the Kremlin at the time of her death, was shot and killed in October 2006 outside her Moscow home.
The Makhmudov brothers are the siblings of Rustam Makhmudov, who is suspected of masterminding the alleged contract-style killing.
Before her death, Politkovskaya reported on human rights abuses that took place in Chechnya as well as acts of brutality committed by Russian military forces.
