The lawyer for Zara Murtazaliyeva, a Chechen woman jailed on charges of planning a terrorist attack in Moscow, has filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, Interfax reported.
Vladimir Suvorov has already appealed the sentence against her in Russia.
On Jan. 17, the Moscow City Court sentenced 21-year-old Murtazaliyeva to nine years in prison for preparing a terrorist attack, involving other people in a terrorist plot and illegally acquiring and storing explosives.
On March 17, the Supreme Court reduced her jail term to 8.5 years after a request by prosecutors following changes in the Criminal Code.
The court found Murtazaliyeva intended to blow up an escalator in the Okhotny Ryad shopping mall in the center of Moscow. She was also charged with training Darya Vorontsova and Anna Kulikova to help her commit the crime. The court rejected the theory that police had planted 196 grams of explosives on Murtazaliyeva.
She was detained in Moscow in March 2004. The investigation said she was trained in a terrorist camp.
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