Murdered Russian reporter's critical last work published

• Report accuses Chechen security forces of torture

• Paper says new evidence emerges on writer's killing

A Russian newspaper yesterday published the report that journalist Anna Politkovskaya was working on the day before she was assassinated - a report that accuses the pro-Moscow Chechen security forces of torture.

Novaya Gazeta devoted a page to the graphic account of a suspected rebel fighter who claimed he was subjected to electric shocks and beaten with rubber batons. The events in the article, headlined We're Appointing You a Terrorist, were described in a letter to Politkovskaya by Beslan Gadayev, a suspected militant who is now in custody in Chechnya. /more/