KCSM Journal July 12, 2013
A russian lawyer very critical of the government has been found guilty of tax evasion three years after he died. The verdict came in the countrys firstever posthumous trial. He was just 37 years old when he died in a moscow prison in november 2000 nine. Human rights investigators say he had been beaten and denied medical treatment for a serious illness. His arrest and detention came shortly after he accused russian officials and police of stealing millions through tax fraud. An empty seat for the accused. This was the end of a posthumous trial, the defendant dead for three years, but that did ...