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Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya the Russian journalist and human rights activist who was assassinated at the age of 48 in 2006 when shot dead in a lift of her apartment block in Central Moscow may be on the verge of having justice for her unresolved murder. Rustam Makhmudov a 37 year old Chechen fugitive suspect of the assassination, has been arrested by Russian authorities with the help of Belgian police, who were closing in on his Belgium hiding place prior to his escape to his parents home back in Chechnya. The arrest is claimed to be a break through in the long maligned investigation. Politkovskaya had won international awards for her anti-Kremlin reporting prior to her assassination, accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of strong arm tactics in the conflict with Chechnya to stifle democracy.

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Salmaan Taseer the governor of the province of Punjab Pakistan and member of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) was assassinated by his own security guard near his home in Islamabad as he was returning from a lunch meeting with a friend at the Kohsar Market a popular cafe spot for the city’s elite. The guard Malik Mumtaz Qadri apparently disagreed with Taseer’s opposition to Pakistan’s blasphemy law, shooting him 26 times with an AK-47 to his chest, neck, face and legs. The blasphemy law imposes a death penalty for insulting Islam, the Quran or the Prophet Mohammed. Taseer who was born to an Englishwoman and into an affluent family of intellectuals, was also the chairman of the national Worldcall Group a major private sector telecom operator.

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