Original sentence: 2002 production of Nord-Ost, she spoke to the hostage takers and made their demands public.2004, terrorist in the Beslan school siege had also demanded her presence.According to journalist Anna Arutunyan, 'During a reporting trip in 2001, Politkovskaya was detained by military officials in the Chechen village of Hotuni.Against this backdrop, it would seem that despite a brave and sincere commitment to unraveling corruption and atrocities wherever possible, Politkovskaya's priorities as a journalist focused more on accusing and less on reporting.Another telling example was Politkovskaya's recent allegations that special forces were preparing an "escape" for jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, in the course of which he was to be killed.At a later press conference in Moscow, Politikovskaya admitted that she had never actually seen the pits herself, but that witnesses related seeing them to her.Critics accused her of being partisan by concentrating on the activities of Russian federal forces, but her supporters claim that she also strongly criticised the brutal tactics of the terrorists.Hence, Politkovskaya was primarily viewed as an activist rather than reporter.Her source was a retired KGB officer who had served time in the camps.In Sept.In another account she had said the ransoms was $150, while in another - $500'.She chronicled human rights abuses and policy failures in Chechnya and elsewhere in Russia's North Caucasus.She was also blamed for  unwillingness to check facts before reporting them if she felt they furthered her cause.The publication was followed by a criminal investigation based on the allegations, but a delegation of official human rights envoys was unable to find any such pits.When she was released, she wrote that she had uncovered pits dug out in the ground where military officials would allegedly keep Chechen hostages for ransom, directly accusing General Baranov, then commander of the Chechen federal troops, of these crimes.When terrorists held an auditorium hostage during the Nov.While the article was published in Novaya Gazeta this spring, these allegations went nowhere
Edited sentence: She tirelessly chronicled human rights abuses and policy failures in Chechnya and elsewhere in Russia's North Caucasus