UK judge upholds request to withhold evidence in Russian spy death investigation

[JURIST] A senior judge for the Judiciary of England and Wales [official website] on Friday partially upheld [Reuters report] a request by British Foreign Secretary William Hague [official profile] to withhold certain information from the investigation into the 2006 death of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko [JURIST news archive]. Litvinenko was a member of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) [official website, in Russian] when he was poisoned to death. Sir Robert Owen was appointed [press release] in...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/05/britain-judge-upholds-request-to-withhold-evidence-from-russian-spy-death-investigation.php

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