Complaint lodged by Movement for Human Rights, lost by Moscow City Court

A complaint lodged by the Movement for Human Rights with the Moscow City Court in connection with the case on the hostage taking on Dubrovka was expected to be considered on March 24, but court officials "confessed they had lost the complaint," head of the movement Lev Ponomarev said to the Ekho Moskvy Radio.

Therefore, the sitting will be put off, he said.

The complaint in question is an appeal against a decision of a district court, the human rights defender explained.

"Right after Nord-Ost hostages had been released, the Movement for Human Rights addressed the Prosecutor General's Office with a proposal to pick out three separate cases from the general criminal case," Lev Ponomarev explained. "The first one concerned fentanyl, a strong drug, which had been illegally used, as we think; the second one concerned the unjustified elimination of all terrorists, which made it impossible to obtain information about these terrorists and their leaders; and the third one concerned the lack of medical aid."

"For already a year, we have been trying to achieve separate investigation into these three cases. We have been turned down," noted Lev Ponomarev. The human rights defenders are going to seek legal investigation into these questions in Russia and do not rule out the possibility of bringing the matter to the European Court of Human Rights, he said.

Editors note: See also the article "Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow denies complaint by Movement for Human Rights".