02 May 2007, 22:13
North Ossetian SC refuses to bring Beslan power officials to responsibility
The Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia has satisfied the complaint of the Russian State Office of Public Prosecutor on cancellation of the decision on non-initiation of a criminal case in relation to the members of the operative headquarters for saving the Beslan hostages, the "Gazeta.Ru" reports.
"They motivate their decision by certain procedural violations," Anneta Gadieva, co-chair of the "Beslan Mothers" Committee, has reported from the courtroom. In protest against the SC's ruling, about a dozen of women from among the Beslan victims are refusing to leave the building of the Supreme Court. The women request to have a meeting with the Supreme Judge of the Republic Tamerlan Aguzarov.
Earlier, the Leninskiy Court of the Republic had cancelled the decision of the investigator of the State Office of Public Prosecutor, who had rejected the claim of Beslan victims to initiate criminal cases against the members of the operative headquarters for releasing the hostages. This decision had made it possible to bring the members of the operative headquarters, including Alexander Dzasokhov, former president of North Ossetia, to responsibility, which has been a long-expected aim of the victims.
