Stanislav Markelov
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Russian lawyer (1974-2009)
Key facts
- Born
- Stanislav Yuryevich Markelov , 20 May 1974, Moscow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
- Died
- 19 January 2009 (2009-01-19) (aged 34), Moscow, Russia
- Cause of death
- Murder
- Alma mater
- Moscow State Law University
- Occupations
- Human rights lawyer and journalist
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Stanislav
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Moscow
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Occupation
- lawyer
- Educated at
- Moscow State Law University
- Political party
- Social Democratic Party of Russia
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- Russian
- Image
- Stanislav Markelov.1974-2009.20071113.jpg
- Work location
- Moscow
- Significant event
- Murder of Markelov and Baburova
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- Commons category
- Stanislav Markelov
- date of birth
- 1974-05-20
- date of death
- 2009-01-19
- manner of death
- homicide
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Human rights
- ethnic group
- Russians
- name in native language
- Станислав Маркелов
- cause of death
- gunshot wound
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Encyclopedic overview
Stanislav Yuryevich Markelov (Russian: Станисла́в Ю́рьевич Марке́лов, IPA: [stənʲɪˈslaf ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mɐrˈkʲeləf]; 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 journalists and victims of police violence.
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 by members of the neo-Nazi organization BORN on 19 January 2009 in Moscow.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stanislav Markelov” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.