Russia Once Again Convicted of Murder in Chechnya
Filed under: Russia
Once again yesterday, the Russian government was convicted of the crime of murder for political purposes by the European Court for Human Rights. As Jurist reports:
The European Court of Human Rights Thursday ruled that Russian authorities were responsible for the 2001 death of a Chechen man who died after he was taken into Russian custody during a raid. The court ordered Russia to pay 62,285 euros in compensation to the family of Shamil Said-Khasanovich Akhmadov, whose battered body was discovered in a field after being detained by Russian forces. The case is not the only one brought against Russia by Chechens; the president of the court has said almost a fifth of the 90,000 complaints currently before the court name the Russian government as a defendant. Radio Free Europe has more. In April the ECHR ordered Russia to compensate a Chechen woman for the disappearance and alleged killing of her husband in 2000.To read the whole ECHR decision, click the link above. To read more about another case of such barbaric conduct by the Kremlin involving the abduction and murder of Ruslan Eliyev, and sign a petition opposing such actions by the Kremlin, click here. For more details about the photograph above, showing pictures of family members holding photographs of their "disappeared" loved ones, click here.
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