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Suspect in Politkovskaya murder case not to appeal against arrest

The suspected organizer of the murder of Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya - retired police Lieutenant-Colonel Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov

MOSCOW, August 26 (Itar-Tass) — The suspected organizer of the murder of Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya - retired police Lieutenant-Colonel Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov - will not appeal against the arrest.

“If the court has made this decision, I will not appeal against it,” he told Tass after a court session.

Moscow’s Basmanny court sanctioned on Friday the arrest of Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov. Thus it satisfied a motion of investigating officer Dmitry Maimusov.