A prominent human rights activist was found dead today in the central Russian city of Kemerovo, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.
Gennady Prudetsky was the director of the Foundation to Protect the Rights of Victims of Repression and Convicts. He was 54 years old.
Nadezhda Ananyeva, a spokeswoman for the Kemerovo Oblast prosecutor's office, told RFE/RL that an unidentified person called the police to report that there was a dead man inside a car on a street in Kemerovo.
Police later found Prudetsky's body with numerous gunshot wounds.
He had survived an assassination attempt several years ago when unknown assailants tried to bomb his apartment.
Gennady Prudetsky was the director of the Foundation to Protect the Rights of Victims of Repression and Convicts. He was 54 years old.
Nadezhda Ananyeva, a spokeswoman for the Kemerovo Oblast prosecutor's office, told RFE/RL that an unidentified person called the police to report that there was a dead man inside a car on a street in Kemerovo.
Police later found Prudetsky's body with numerous gunshot wounds.
He had survived an assassination attempt several years ago when unknown assailants tried to bomb his apartment.