ONE of three Chechen brothers currently on trial for the 2006 murder of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been shot in the leg, his defence lawyer says.
Dzhabrail Makhmudov has been hospitalised in Moscow with a gunshot wound to his thigh, lawyer Murad Musayev wrote on Facebook on Thursday, adding that doctors said he was lucky to be alive after the bullet went clean through his leg, just missing an artery.
Musayev complained that no police arrived at the scene overnight, despite the firing of a shot.
His client is free to move around Moscow but subject to travel restrictions as a jury trial is in progress.
The lawyer linked the shooting to the trial in an interview with Moscow Echo radio station, saying: "I absolutely do not rule out that what happened yesterday could be linked to our active position in court.
"The people who followed Politkovskaya, who killed Politkovskaya, are at large."
In a hospital bed interview, Makhmudov told Life News website that the attackers hit him on the head as well as shooting him, saying he believed they "definitely wanted to do me in".
The shooting of Politkovskaya, a journalist for liberal newspaper Novaya Gazeta who strongly criticised the Kremlin's tactics in Chechnya, shocked the world, but so far no one has been brought to justice.
Russia ordered a retrial after a first trial ended in acquittals in 2009.
Politkovskaya's son Ilya and daughter Vera had boycotted the new trial, which opened last month, over a failure to consult them on the jury members.
But Ilya Politkovsky attended a trial hearing on Thursday.
"We realised that the defence was actively making use of our absence," he told the Interfax news agency.
"A number of rights activists wrote to us asking us to return to the trial to guarantee its objectivity."
Dzhabrail Makhmudov is suspected along with another brother, Ibragim, of organising the shooting of Politkovskaya at the entrance to her apartment building. A third brother, Rustam, according to investigators, fired the shot. He was on the run during the earlier trial.
The men's uncle Lom-Ali Gaitukayev is also accused of organising the crime along with a former Moscow police officer, Sergei Khadzhikurbanov. They are charged with murder and arms trafficking. Three of the suspects are being held in detention, while two are free but subject to a travel ban.
Russia has failed to identify a mastermind behind the killing.
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