30 June 2004 12:52
Qatar court jails Russians over Chechen killing
A court in Qatar sentenced two Russians on Wednesday to life imprisonment for killing a Chechen rebel leader in the Gulf state and said the Russian leadership was behind the assassination.
Passing sentence on Anatoly Belashkov and Vassily Bogachev, judge Ibrahim al-Nisf said the two men had been acting on orders from Moscow. "The Russian leadership issued an order to assassinate the former Chechen leader (Zelimkhan) Yanderbiyev," he said.
There was no immediate comment from Russian authorities.
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