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Pavel Laptev, Russian envoy to the European Court of Human Rights, announced Wednesday he will appeal the award of the above court taken in the action of Chechens vs. Georgia and Russia. Laptev called the award unprecedented in its “partiality, politicization and adherence to the double standards” and pledged to challenge it in the Grand Chamber.
On April 12, European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg sustained in part the claim of 11 residents of Chechnya and two residents of Georgia lodged vs. Russia and Georgia (Shamaev & Others vs. Georgia and Russia). The claimants, whom the courts of Georgia and Russia declared members of unlawful armed units, insisted they were illegally detained, extradited to Russia and deprived of the right to the fully valued defense. The European Court bound the above two countries to pay compensation for moral damages and to settle court costs.
Laptev stepped in Wednesday, saying the court’s decision in the action of Chechens vs. Georgia and Russia would be appealed in the Grand Chamber of the European Court. Laptev has three months for it but the chances of success are next to nothing. “I can predict zero result of the appeal,” said Lyudmila Alexeeva, president at Moscow Helsinki Group. “Strasbourg Court applies strict procedures, and they were followed in the course of making the award, it is not Basmanny Court,” Alexeeva specified. A source close to the European Court told Kommersant Laptev himself understands he will get nothing out of it but it is his job to challenge the decisions hostile to the government of Russia.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Apr. 14, 2005
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