Moscow Siege Case Not Transferred to Another Court

World | January 16, 2003, Thursday // 00:00

The case on the huge compensation claim, filed by Moscow theatre siege survivors and victims' relatives, was not transferred to a different court. Reports describe the court as poorly equipped for a trial in which 49 individual lawsuits had already been filed. The survivors and relatives of the victims are demanding compensation from the city government worth $48m. The plaintiff's lawyer Igor Trunov, who demanded the transfer of the hearing, also accused the court of being biased. Of more than 700 people held hostage at a Moscow theatre by Chechen rebels, 129 died, largely as a result of knock-out gas used by security forces as they stormed the building.

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