16:17 02.05.2016

Denial of parole to MP Jemilev's son to be appealed in ECHR

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Denial of parole to MP Jemilev's son to be appealed in ECHR

The defense team of Khaiser Jemilev, son of Ukrainian MP Mustafa Jemilev, who is serving a term in Russian jail for reckless killing, will appeal against a denial of parole in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), his defense lawyer, Nikolai Polozov has said.

"The Astrakhan Regional Court has denied parole to Khaiser Jemilev. The next step will be an appeal to the ECHR," Polozov wrote on Twitter.

On April 28, the Astrakhan Regional Court dismissed the appeal of Jemilev's defense team against a district court's decision which rejected his request for parole.

Polozov said his client had repented, he had served almost the entire sentence, was not a threat to society, paid the expenses to the complainant. He also said that the death of Fevzi Edemov was 'a tragic accident'.

Khaiser Jemilev, the son of Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada lawmaker Mustafa Jemilev, was moved to penitentiary No. 10 in Astrakhan on November 11, 2015. He was sentenced to five years in a general-security penitentiary for reckless murder, theft and possession of weapons in June at the Krasnodar territorial court by the verdict pronounced by the jury. In September the term in prison was diminished by 18 months due to the expiration of the statute of limitations under an article on murder.

According to the case materials, in May 2013 Jemilev secretly stole a carbine with an optical sight and rounds for it from the house of his father in Bakhchisarai, the Russian internal Republic of Crimea. He brought the gun to his house situated nearby, where he kept it in a closet in the bedroom.

According to the investigation findings, in the afternoon of May 27, 2013, Jemilev took out and loaded the carbine, after which he moved around the house, aiming at birds and other objects through the optical sight from the windows. From the bathroom on the second floor, the defendant shot Fevzi Edemov, a friend of the Jemilev family who was working in the garden, in the head.

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