caption death_date death_place birth_place ethnicity birth_date birthname image article_title name occupation
stanislav on november 13 , 2007 markelov at a moscow seminar in bilingua club 19 january 2009 moscow , russia moscow , soviet union russian 20 may 1974 stanislav yuryevich markelov stanislav markelov.1974-2009 .20071113 . jpg stanislav markelov
 stanislav markelov human rights lawyer and journalist
stanislav markelov

stanislav yuryevich markelov -lrb- ; 20 may 1974 -- 19 january 2009 -rrb- 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 .
