On
August 11 Dagestan’s Supreme Court appointed on August 25
a new trial on the murder of Farid Babayev, leader Dagestan
YABLOKO and candidate to the Deputy of the State Duma.
Earlier on January 20, 2009, the Supreme Court of Dagestan
ruled out that Rasil Mamedrizayev was guilty of the murder
of Farid Babayev sentencing him to 16 years of imprisonment.
The court acquitted the second accomplice Seferali Sefemerzoyev.
The prosecution appealed against such decision in the Supreme
Court of the Russian Federation, as could not agree with acquittal
of Sefemerzoyev. Mamedrizayev’s attorney also appealed against
this decision demanding an acquittal for his client.
On June 4, the Supreme Court of Russia overruled this decision
and forwarded the case to the Supreme Court of Dagestan for
a new trial by a different judge and also ruled out that arrest
as a measure of restraint for Mamedrizayev should be kept
in force. However, there was no ruling concerning such measure
of restraint for the second of the accused, despite overruling
of his acquittal; whereas during the first trial both the
accused were kept under arrest.
See also:
The Murder of
Farid Babayev
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