13 October, Tribute to Anna Politkovskaya

[Robert Chandler]

Media Notice: 10th October 2006


A Tribute to Anna Politkovskaya

Lord Rea invites journalists and friends to join in a Tribute to Anna
Politkovskaya, the Russian journalist who was murdered in a contract killing
in an elevator at the entrance of her apartment block in Moscow on Saturday
7th October 2006. It will be held at the House of Lords at 2.30pm on 13th
October 2006. You are also invited to join a laying of flowers in memory of
Anna at Westminster Abbey led by Vanessa Redgrave prior to the Tribute.

Date:                           Friday, 13 October 2006

Time & Place:            1.30pm laying of flowers in memory of Anna
Politkovskaya at the Innocent Victims Memorial at the West Door of
Westminster Abbey (gather at West Door at 1.15pm) led by Vanessa Redgrave.

Time & Place:            2.30pm, Committee Room 3, House of Lords ­ A
Tribute to Anna Politkovskaya

Host:                Lord Rea

Speakers:             Akhmed Zakaev - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the
Chechen Republic CRI (1997)

Bill Bowring - European Human Rights Advocacy Centre; Baroness Ludford MEP

Andrei Nekrasov, Russian film director

Vanessa Redgrave   

 

Lord Rea says:  ³Anna Politkovskaya¹s death is a tragic loss for freedom of
speech in

Russia. She represented the best of investigative journalism, and I invite
all those who

admired her work and her courage to join us on Friday.²

 

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Enquiries: Victoria Sabin/Heidi Mallace, Project Associates, on +44 20 7432
3216 or email victoria at projectassociatesltd.com or
heidi at projectassociatesltd.com. At Westminster Abbey, Duncan Jeffrey Tel
0207 654 4888 or email Duncan.jeffrey at westminster-abbey.org.

 


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