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Two Deaths in Pretrial Detention Show that Little Has Changed Since the Magnitsky Case.
Andrei Kudoyarov, a former principal of a school in Moscow, was facing 12 years in prison for attempting to solicit bribes, when he died of a massive heart attack in a Moscow pretrial detention center last week. With an eye to the drawn-out investigation and international furor over the earlier death of Firestone Duncan lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, investigators responded quickly by opening an inquiry into the death on Tuesday. Yet when a second prisoner in a Russian pretrial detention center died on the same day, rights activists cried foul, claiming that substandard care in detention centers has led to an “epidemic” of prisoner deaths.
Kudoyarov was arrested in May on charges that he had taken a bribe of 240,000 rubles in exchange for giving a student a spot in the first grade at Moscow School 1308. Other parents came forward with similar claims, some voiced as recently as this week, yet Kudoyarov’s lawyers and many at the school continued to claim he had been set up. It all became moot when he died on Saturday in pretrial detention of a fatal heart attack. An article published in Moskovsky Komsolets claimed he waited 43 minutes for an ambulance to arrive at the scene.
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Russian rights veteran doubts Politkovskaya murder mastermind will be found
Interfax
The head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alekseyeva, doubts that the real commissioner of the murder of Novaya Gazeta [newspaper] observer Anna Politkovskaya will be established.
“There are some very positive assessments of investigators’ actions coming from Novaya Gazeta and Politkovskaya’s son, Ilya. They are happy about something. But I have serious doubts that the real commissioner [of the murder] will be ascertained,” Alekseyeva told the Interfax news agency on Thursday [6 October].
She said that “one of the links in power-wielding structures” may be involved in the murder.
“Their principle is not to give up their own. Working closely on the case of Sergey Magnitskiy [Hermitage Capital lawyer, who died in pre-trial detention], I have come to see how solidly this logic works, how they resist absolutely obvious things. They do not give up their own,” Alekseyeva said.
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Alexeyeva asks international community to react to Magnitsky death
Interfax
October 25 – Russian rights campaigners requested assistance during talks with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Philip Gordon in probing Hermitage Capital Foundation lawyer Sergei Magnitsky’s death at a detention facility.
“I said that if our authorities cannot punish the guilty, let the world community react,” a participant in the meeting, head of Moscow’s Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, told Interfax.
The talks also dealt with problems which Russian civil activists get confronted with, including in organizing public actions.
Russian rights activists complained that it is much easier for them to meet with foreign representatives than with Russian officials, who invite civil activists very rarely.
Alexeyeva earlier told Interfax that although not everything is proper with human rights in the United States, the situation there is better than in Russia.
Magnitsky, 37, died at the Matrosskaya Tishina prison on November 16, 2009. He was being held on charges of tax evasion. His death caused widespread public outcry. The Investigative Committee started an inquiry into his death on charges of “not aiding a patient” and “negligence.” But rights activists claimed that Magnitsky’s death had not been investigated in seriously.
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