RUSSIA/FILE: Russian court sentences four people from 10 years to life for the 2011 Domodedovo airport blast which killed 37 and injured 172

Record ID: 1376973

  • Title: RUSSIA/FILE: Russian court sentences four people from 10 years to life for the 2011 Domodedovo airport blast which killed 37 and injured 172
  • Date: 11th November 2013
  • Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (NOVEMBER 11, 2013) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF EXTERIOR OF MOSCOW REGION COURT RUSSIAN JUDGE ENTERING COURTROOM GUARDS NEAR COURTROOM CAGE DEFENDANTS IN COURTROOM CAGE JUDGE READING SENTENCE PAPERS ON JUDGE'S TABLE JUDGE READING SENTENCE GUARDS NEAR COURTROOM CAGE DEFENDANT IN HANDCUFFS HUGGING FELLOW DEFENDANT VARIOUS OF JUDGE EXITING COURTROOM LAWYER SPEAKING TO DEFENDANTS IN CAGE WOMEN IN HEADSCARVES IN COURTROOM (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) DEFENDANT ILEZ YANDIEV'S LAWYER VLADIMIR KOCHARYAN, SAYING: "I think that this is just a return to 1937. Why? Because irrespective of the fact that the result was announced, it's clear from the sentence that the main judicial principles such as full integrity, a multi-view approach, objectivity, and all doubts being explained in favor of the suspect, defendant, accused - in principle these things were probably forgotten. All of this considering that Ilez (Yandiyev) is absolutely not guilty." VARIOUS OF REPORTERS IN HALLWAY
  • Embargoed: 26th November 2013 20:51
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  • Location: Russian Federation
  • Country: Russian Federation
  • Topics: Crime,Conflict
  • Reuters ID: LVA6OZPFR7KVPTN6CP1SP1CHWHEW
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3
  • Story Text: A Russian court jailed three men for life and one for 10 years on Monday (November 11) over their role in a suicide bombing which killed 37 people at Moscow's Domodedovo airport nearly three years ago.
    Chechen warlord Doku Umarov says he ordered the attack on Jan. 24, 2011, as part of an Islamist insurgency against Russian rule of the North Caucasus and has urged supporters to attack the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea city of Sochi.
    Brothers Islam and Ilez Yandiyev, Akhmed Yevloyev and Bashir Khamkhoyev were jailed for offences including commissioning an act of terror, murder and attempted murder.
    Only Yevloyev did not receive a life sentence from the Moscow regional court, Russian news agencies said. Prosecutors had asked for a shorter term for him because he was a minor at the time of the attack.
    State prosecutors said the four had helped the suicide bomber travel from their native region of Ingushetia in the North Caucasus to Moscow and providing him with an apartment, an explosives belt and transport.
    Yandiyev's lawyer, Vladimir Kocharyan, said his client was innocent.
    "I think that this is just a return to 1937. Why? Because irrespective of the fact that the result was announced, it's clear from the sentence that the main judicial principles such as full integrity, a multi-view approach, objectivity, and all doubts being explained in favor of the suspect, defendant, accused - in principle these things were probably forgotten. All of this considering that Ilez (Yandiyev) is absolutely not guilty," Kocharyan said.
    Russian Investigative Committee Spokesman Vladimir Markin also commented on the case on Monday, saying Russian police and security services still had work to do to catch Chechen warlord Doku Umarov, who is still at large.
    "As directed by Doku Umarov suicide terrorist Magomed Yavloyev was sent to Moscow in order to commit this act of terrorism (bombing Domodedovo airport). Currently Russian security service and police forces are continuing activities to detect and detain Doku Umarov, Aslan Byutukaev and other persons put on a search warrant for this criminal case," Markin said.
    Vladimir Putin sent troops to Chechnya to halt a separatist rebellion in 1999, when he was prime minister, but Russia still faces almost daily violence in the North Caucasus in his third term as president.
    Umarov, the leader of Russia's Islamist insurgency, has urged his fighters to use "maximum force" to sabotage the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February.
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