The media rights group Reporters Without Borders has called for an international inquiry into the murder of Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya.

Politkovskaya was gunned down in Moscow last month. The Russian Prosecutor-General’s office, which is in charge of the investigation, says it is pursuing several possible motives.

After Anna Politkovskaya’s murder nearly a month ago, Reporters Without Borders launched a petition demanding an international commission of enquiry to find out the truth about her death, the group said in a statement published on its official website.

More than 6,000 people, including 200 leading European figures, have already backed this initiative. The include media figures such as Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, Christine Ockrent and Juan Luis Cebrian, leading judges such as Baltasar Garzon and Carla del Ponte, politicians such as Bernard Kouchner, Bronislaw Geremek and Daniel Cohn-Bendit.

Those demanding justice for Anna Politkovskaya also include former Russian dissidents such as Elena Bonner-Sakharov and Vladimir Bukovski, philosophers such as Andre Glucksmann, Bernard-Henri Levy and Andre Comte-Sponville, writers such as Fernando Arrabal, Ismail Kadare and Margaret Atwood), investigators such as Marie Mendras and Nicole Bacharan, and actors such as Jeanne Moreau and Alain Souchon.

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