The jailing of Vietnamese journalist Nguyen Viet Chien continues to be in the news today with the legal Web site Jurist and the South Korean-based news site Digital Chosun both running stories about the two-year sentence the journalist has received.
Russia Profile magazine has an online piece today about the opening of the Anna Poltikovskaya murder trail in Moscow. The piece looks at the recent poisoning of the Politkovskaya family lawyer, Karinna Moskalenko, as well as the major issues surrounding the case including press being barred from the proceedings.