13 July 2007, 13:26
European Court's decision obliges to investigate into activities of the Oktiabrskiy VOVD of the Chechen capital
Chechnya needs a laboratory for identification of body remains found in mass and individual burials that abandon in the Republic. This conclusion can be drawn from the decision of the European Court announced on July 12 on the case of violent disappearance of Magomadov brothers, Kirill Koroteev, a lawyer of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" who represented the applicants' interests in Strasbourg, said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
The decision of the European Court that has found the authorities of Russia guilty of violent disappearance and death of Ayubkhan Magomadov confirms the long available information that people used to disappear and die in the Oktiabrskiy VOVD (Temporary District Interior Department).
Passage by the European Court of this decision obliges the Russian authorities not only to pay out compensations to the victims, but also to investigate all the circumstances of functioning of this prison and to bring those guilty to responsibility. This was the topic of the press release of July 12 issued by the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" after promulgation of the European Court's decision on Magomadovs' case.
The Court's verdict will come into force in three months, unless during this period Russia applies to the Court on revision of the case. So far, as Mr Koroteev has explained that even when the RF Government addressed the Court with such requests, it could not enforce revision of lost cases, even of really most complicated ones.
Author: Vyacheslav Feraposhkin, CK correspondent
