{"id":3531,"date":"2008-11-19T20:02:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T00:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2009-04-10T15:59:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T19:59:50","slug":"update-politkovskaya-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/uncategorized\/update-politkovskaya-trial\/3531\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Politkovskaya Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just two days after the judge declared the trial of three men suspected of involvement in Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya&#8217;s murder would be <a href=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/episodes\/the-russian-newspaper-murders\/politkovskaya-murder-case-to-be-tried-before-public\/3513\/\">open to the public<\/a>, reporters were ordered to <a id=\"v4t0\" title=\"clear the courtroom\" href=\"http:\/\/cpj.org\/2008\/11\/court-closes-politkovskaya-murder-trial-to-public.php\">clear the courtroom<\/a>. The presiding judge declared that the 20 selected jurors had requested closed proceedings. The defendants&#8217; lawyers, Politkovskaya&#8217;s family and her former employer, <em><a id=\"y7md\" title=\"Novaya Gazeta\" href=\"http:\/\/en.novayagazeta.ru\/\">Novaya Gazeta<\/a><\/em>, decried the move.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>In 2004, Anna Politkovskaya appeared in Wide Angle\u2019s <\/strong><\/em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/episodes\/the-russian-newspaper-murders\/preview-anna-politkovskaya-in-the-russian-newspaper-murders\/3472\/\">The Russian Newspaper Murders<\/a>,<\/strong><em><strong> two years before she herself was murdered. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just two days after the judge declared the trial of three men suspected of involvement in Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya&#8217;s murder would be open to the public, reporters were ordered to clear the courtroom. The presiding judge declared that the 20 selected jurors had requested closed proceedings. 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