INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Syrian national accused of killing the Russian feminist and anti-war activist Anastasia Yemelyanova has been acquitted of a murder charge
due to a lack of evidence against him, Turkish and Russian media reported Monday.Mohammad Nizar Arnabeh wasarrested in September after
Yemelyanova, with whom he was in a relationship at the time, was found dead in their shared apartment in the eastern Turkish city of
Erzurum 1st High Criminal Court found Arnabehnot guilty of the intentional killing of a woman, a felony punishable by life imprisonment,
according to the Turkish daily Hurriyet.Begum Osma, a volunteer lawyer with the Women and Children First Association NGO, called the
been established that a crime was committed, Hurriyet reported.Investigators previously accused Arnabeh of assaulting Yemelyanova and
in the leg before ultimately denying that he was at home at the time she died.
