Russia adjourns dead lawyer trial to March 22
- Published: 11 Mar 2013 at 16.49
- Online news: World
A Moscow court on Monday put dead Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky on trial for tax evasion in defiance of his family's complaints it was "desecrating" his memory, but swiftly adjourned the process to March 22.
A handout photo provided by Hermitage Capital Management shows flowers laying on a portrait of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky shortly after his funeral at Moscow's Preobrazhenskoye cemetery on November 20, 2009. A Moscow court has put Magnitsky on trial for tax evasion in defiance of his family's complaints it was "desecrating" his memory, but swiftly adjourned the process to March 22.
After several preliminary hearings earlier this year, the trial proper got under way at the Tverskoi district court but the judge quickly adjourned the hearing to give the court-appointed defence more time to prepare.
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