16 October 2013, 17:07
Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court refuses to find extremism in monograph "The International Tribunal for Chechnya"
The Court has upheld the ruling of the first instance to refuse to recognize the monograph "The International Tribunal for Chechnya" to be an extremist material.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on July 2, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region dismissed the lawsuit lodged by the Prosecutor's Office on recognition of the monograph "The International Tribunal for Chechnya" as an extremist material. The Office then appealed against the ruling of the above District Court.
Today, the Panel on Administrative Cases of the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court chaired by Judge Valentina Samartseva has considered the appeal of the Prosecutor's Office and decided to reject the appeal and uphold the ruling of the first instance.
At the court session, the interests of the authors of the monograph were represented by the lawyer Alexander Manov. In their speeches, Manov and Stanislav Dmitrievskiy (one of the authors of the monograph) noted that the Prosecutor's Office had failed to put forward at least one legal argument in support of its position, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports.