The widows of Dzhabiev and Tsakaev are dissatisfied with the court rulings on their husbands' deaths after torture.
Oksana Sotieva declined to appeal the security forces' sentence, which was mitigated by the Supreme Court of South Ossetia, despite believing the ruling in the case of her husband, Inal Dzhabiev, who died in a police station in Tskhinvali, to be unjust. Vladimir Tskaev's widow, Zemfira, has been seeking punishment for those involved in her husband's death for over a decade after his arrest in Vladikavkaz. The case is being heard again in court.