From background left: Zaur Dadayev, Temirlan Eskerkhanov, Shadid Gubashev, Khamzat Bakhayev, and Anzor Gubashe, defendants suspected of involvement in the killing of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, sit in a glass enclosure during their trial in a Moscow military district court in Moscow, Russia,Wednesday, July 12, 2017. A Russian jury last month found five men guilty of involvement in the killing. Prosecutors on Wednesday asked the court to sentence the suspected killer, Zaur Dadayev, a former officer in the security forces of Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov, to life in prison and the other four men to lengthy prison terms. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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MOSCOW (AP) - Prosecutors have asked a Moscow court to send a man convicted in the assassination of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov to prison for life.
A Russian jury last month found five men guilty of involvement in the killing. Prosecutors on Wednesday asked the court to sentence the suspected killer, Zaur Dadayev, a former officer in the security forces of Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov, to life in prison and the other four men to lengthy prison terms.
Nemtsov, a top opponent of President Vladimir Putin, was shot late at night in 2015 as he was walking across a bridge just outside the Kremlin.
Nemtsov's allies have criticized investigators for not studying a possible role of Kadyrov in the killing.
The court is expected to deliver the sentences on Thursday.
From left: Shadid Gubashev, Khamzat Bakhayev, Anzor Gubashev, defendants suspected of involvement in the killing of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, sit in a glass enclosure during their trial in a Moscow military district court in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. A Russian jury last month found five men guilty of involvement in the killing. Prosecutors on Wednesday asked the court to sentence the suspected killer, Zaur Dadayev, a former officer in the security forces of Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov, to life in prison and the other four men to lengthy prison terms. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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