From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/26/2005 5:13 AM
25.04.2005
Relatives of Slain Chechen Leader Maskhadov to Sue Russia Over Secret Burial
The family of slain Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov is planning to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights and demand that Russian authorities hand over his body which was buried in a secret location, the Associated Press news agency reported citing Maskhadov’s son Anzor as saying.
A senior Russian prosecutor said on Friday that Maskhadov had been buried secretly in line with legislation allowing authorities to refuse to release the bodies of terrorists to their family.
«We still hope that this decision will be revised and the body will be given to us. In case they don’t change their mind we will have to appeal to the Strasbourg court," the Associated Press quoted Anzor Maskhadov as saying.
The European court’s rulings are binding on all 46 members of the Council of Europe, ...
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