Court: | ECtHR |
Decidedate: | 26 July |
Decideyear: | 2007 |
Fullname: | Musayev, Labazanova and Magomadov v. Russia |
Casenumber: | 57941/00, 58699/00 and 60403/00 |
Ecli: | ECLI:CE:ECHR:2007:0726JUD005794100 |
Chamber: | First Section |
Judgepresident: | C.L. Rozakis |
Judge1: | L. Loucaides |
Judge2: | N. Vajić |
Judge3: | A. Kovler |
Judge4: | E. Steiner |
Judge5: | K. Hajiyev |
Judge6: | D. Spielmann |
Musayev, Labazanova and Magomadov v. Russia was the July 26, 2007, ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the case of the February 2000 Novye Aldi massacre in Chechnya, which unanimously held Russia responsible for violations of Articles 2 (right to life) and 13 (right to effective remedy) of the European Convention of Human Rights. The three applications, which the Court joined into one case, concerned the murders of 11 civilian persons committed during a rampage in the Chechen capital Grozny by the Russian OMON special police unit.
In its ruling, the Court said: