Grozny Memorial satisfied with ECHR ruling in Tangiyeva parents’ murder case
posted by zaina19 on November, 2007 as Human Rights
Grozny Memorial satisfied with ECHR ruling in Tangiyeva parents’ murder case
GROZNY, Chechnya, PW's correspondent – The Memorial Human Rights Centre in Grozny held a press conference today regarding the latest Chechnya-related decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Tangiyeva versus Russia. The organization’s chairman Oleg Orlov was also present at the press conference.
The human rights defenders are satisfied with the ECHR’s ruling in the case of Zaynap Tangiyeva, whose mother and father were killed by Russian soldiers in 2000. It should be noted that the complainant’s brother Shamil Tangiyev is the chairman of the Memorial Centre’s Grozny office, and it was precisely with an effort to secure justice that he began his career as a human rights activist.
Tangiyeva’s case is now the eleventh to be granted a favourable ruling in the current year. In total, Memorial has brought twenty-two complaints by residents of Chechnya to the court, and they have all received positive decisions.
According to this latest ruling, unless it lodges an appeal Russia is obliged to pay the complainant 60,000 thousand euros for moral damage plus 6,556 euros for costs and expenses.
Memorial considers that the Russian authorities are obliged to undertake a thorough investigation of each complaint about human rights violations in Chechnya in order to find and punish those responsible. Otherwise the number of claims against Russia in the EHCR may sharply increase.
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