Upon a judgment of European Court of Human Rights, Moscow has to pay 220 thousand euros to residents of Chechnya

On March, 27, the Court in Strasbourg brought judgments on the cases of ten-years standing concerning murders and kidnapping of residents of Chechnya and obliged Russia to pay compensations to a total sum of 220 thousand euros and 8500 euros legal costs.

The judges in Strasbourg decided that Russian authorities violated a number of clauses of European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

European Court of Human Rights acknowledged Moscow responsible for the death of four women residents of Chechnya in 2000-2001, radio “Echo of Moscow” reports.

The first case concerned murder of Shema and Shamani Iynderbieva, two sisters born in 1963 and 1966, in 2000 in Grozny. Their neighbours saw a Russian serviceman throwing a grenade into the cellar where the women were hiding themselves. Investigation started in May, 2000, but the relatives have not got any information about its result yet, “Deutsche Welle” reports.

The plaintiffs on the second case are relatives of Aset Yakhaeva born in 1956 and Milana Betilgirieva born in 1980. In November, 2001, they were carried away by uniformed people who burst into the house in the settlement of Serzhen-Yurt. The investigation was futile and ECtHR decided that the missing women might be considered lost.

The judges in Strasbourg decided that the Russian authorities violated clauses of the Convention concerning the right to life, liberty and security of person, the right of efficient legal remedy as well as the clause prohibiting inhuman and humiliating treatment.