Chechen lady's suit costs Russia 65,000 euro

Today, the European Court for Human Rights has found Russian authorities guilty of kidnapping and murdering a person in Chechnya. Asmart Baisaeva, a resident of Chechnya, is the winner in the case versus Russia. The case concerned disappearance of her husband Shakhid Baisaev in March 2000 in the settlement of Podgornoye near Grozny.

Advocate Arsen Sakalov, director of the Ingush NGO "Legal Initiative," which helped the wife of the missing person in filing her application to Strasbourg, told the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" that Russia was found guilty of breaching Articles 2 (right for life), 3 (inhuman treatment), 5 (illegal arrest) and 13 (right for efficient investigation) of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Asmart Baisaeva, the applicant to the European Court, will receive from the losing party compensation for material damage in the sum of 1732 euros, and for moral damage - 50,000 euros. Also, Russia shall pay 12,994 euros of legal costs, Andrei Nikolaev, a lawyer of the Moscow representative office of the Dutch-based NGO "Legal Initiative for Russia," has told the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot." In total, Russian tax payers will have to pay another 65,000 euros for lawlessness in Chechnya.