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Journalist dies after shooting

19 January 2009 09:32pm

A journalist who was shot along with a human rights lawyer on a Moscow street has died in hospital, a newspaper editor has said.

Anastasia Baburova died on the operating table, hours after Monday's shooting, according to Novaya Gazeta editor Sergei Sokolov.

Ms Baburova, a freelance journalist who worked for the paper, was shot when she reportedly tried to intervene after a gunman fatally shot lawyer Stanislav Markelov.

Mr Markelov was fighting against the early release of a Russian colonel convicted of murdering a Chechen woman in 2000.

He had also represented murdered anti-Putin journalist Anna Politkovskaya as well as Chechens and others who made allegations of abuse at the hands of Russian authorities.