We are all shocked by the news of Anna Politkovskaya's murder. Her commitment to exposing authoritarian abuses in Vladimir Putin's Russia and the "dirty war" in Chechnya had made her a symbol of democratic conscience in both Russia and the West.
We now demand that the competent authorities - e.g. under the aegis of the United Nations or the Council of Europe - create an international commission of inquest to establish the truth about Anna Politkovskaya's murder in Moscow, on October 7th 2006.

Twenty one journalists have been murdered since Putin became Russia's president in March 2000. Most of these murders have not been solved. The murder of Politkovskaya, one of the few reporters to have covered the situation in Chechnya since 1999, one who had received many international awards for her work, has taken Russia across a new threshold of horror.

We demand the creation of an international commission of enquiry to establish the truth about Anna Politkovskaya's murder on 7 October in Moscow. We call for justice, with the utmost transparency and for an end to impunity for those who murder journalists.

Click HERE to sign the petition calling for an international commission of enquiry.

The petition in PDF format is available in two languages: english - russian