Human rights defenders note delay in investigation into Katyr-Yurt bombing

An investigation into a case on bombing of the village of Katyr-Yurt in 2000 is intentionally delayed, while access to the information is limited, note participants of a memorial evening dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the events in Katyr-Yurt.

On February 6, the memorial evening was held at a building of the "International Memorial" in Moscow.

Alexander Cherkasov, the chairman of the HRC "Memorial", has noted that there is still no fair trial in the cases on the events of February 2000 and similar cases on murders and disappearances of Chechen natives. "We have quite a lot of experience in various kinds of cases. They institute a criminal case and suspend it two months later. Then, after an appeal of interested persons, they resume it again and suspend it again. If investigators succeed in identifying an organizer or executor of a particular murder, then it becomes clear very quickly that the investigation is turning to cover up a criminal," said Alexander Cherkasov. According to him, for twenty years, out of several thousand cases, only four had been investigated and brought to verdicts.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on February 7, 2020 at 07:57 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.