She was a special correspondent for the Novaya Gazeta newspaper and had become one of the country's most prominent human rights advocates.

"A prominent civil rights leader whose middle-of-the-road policy is holding back the cause of black nationalism and the freedom movement."

Certain subjects, abortion being the most prominent right now, remain off limits.

Ms. Politkovskaya had become one of the country's most prominent human rights advocates.

Nitschke said he had sought a legal opinion from prominent human rights lawyer Greg Barns.

McCann would go on to become one of the most prominent civil rights activists.

Two prominent civil rights lawyers, one white, one black, denounced him as divisive.

The prominent human rights activist al-Khawaja family did not welcome the retrial.