page_title: Stanislav Markelov
hierarchical_section_title: Stanislav Markelov
caption_attribution_description: English: Stanislav Markelov (1974-2009), a Russian human rights lawyer and journalist, at a seminar in Bilingua club (Moscow) on November 13, 2007 (assasinated on January 19, 2009 in Moscow).
context_page_description: Stanislav Yuryevich Markelov was a Russian human rights lawyer. He participated in a number of publicized cases, including those of left-wing political activists and antifascists persecuted since the 1990s, as well as those of victims of police violence, journalists, etc.
  Inter alia, Markelov had been the attorney for the family of Elza Kungaeva, a young Chechen woman killed by Russian colonel Yuri Budanov, who was released from prison in mid-January, 15 months before his original sentence was to end.
  Markelov was murdered on 19 January 2009 in Moscow.
context_section_description: Stanislav Yuryevich Markelov (Russian: Станисла́в Ю́рьевич Марке́лов; 20 May 1974 – 19 January 2009) was a Russian human rights lawyer. He participated in a number of publicized cases, including those of left-wing political activists and antifascists persecuted since the 1990s, as well as those of victims of police violence, journalists, etc.
  Inter alia, Markelov had been the attorney for the family of Elza Kungaeva, a young Chechen woman killed by Russian colonel Yuri Budanov, who was released from prison in mid-January, 15 months before his original sentence was to end.
  Markelov was murdered on 19 January 2009 in Moscow.
caption: Stanislav Markelov at a Moscow seminar in Bilingua club on 13 November 2007
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