Complaint of CaT's advocate about non-admission to Dadaev rejected

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has found lawful the investigators' actions of non-admitting the advocate of the "Committee against Torture" (CaT) Evgeny Gubin to Zaur Dadaev, a native of Chechnya, involved in Boris Nemtsov's murder case.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Gubin was attracted by the CaT to represent the interests of Zaur Dadaev on his complaint of torture. On May 13, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow refused to admit a lawyer to defend Dadaev; then, Gubin appealed against this refusal.

The defendant had earlier confirmed that he invited the advocate, as he "was tortured, but this fact was not recorded in writing" by the previous defender, the TASS reports.

The defence of those accused sees no grounds for re-qualifying the crime from the "murder for hire" into the "murder on religious grounds". "The court has appointed a psychiatric examination, but it is a standard procedure intended to define defendants' sanity. But it can't answer the question of motive," said Shamsudin Tsakaev, another Dadaev's advocate. He stressed that the course would not be able to establish the motive of the crime, because the defendants deny their guilt, the "Interfax" reports.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.