22:10, 26 November 2010

Strasbourg Court obliges Russia to pay more than 240,000 euros to relatives of casualties in Chechnya

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) made a decision on the murder of four young residents of Chechnya in 2000.

According to the decision, Russia shall pay 60,000 euros to each family as compensation of moral harm and 2212 euros of legal costs.

According to the claimants, on February 7, 2000, four residents of Chechnya were shot dead by Russian militaries in the course of a "cleansing" in the village of Gekhi-Chu without any reason. A criminal case on this fact was initiated only in July 2000; and soon the inquiry was suspended due to impossibility to identify those guilty, as the human rights association named AGORA reports.

The ECtHR has concluded that Russia had broken the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in the part of the right to life and the right to fair trial, the "Interfax" reports.