Alexeyeva ‘moderately optimistic’ about investigators’ statement over Magnitsky inquest

Interfax

Head of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) Lyudmila Alexeyeva has welcomed a statement by the Russian Investigative Committee that it might extend the list persons suspected in the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky while in custody.

“I am being moderately optimistic about it,” she told Interfax on Tuesday.

“Promising does not mean doing,” she added.

On Tuesday, the Russian Investigative Committee announced that the main criminal inquiry into Magnitsky’s death is not over yet and, if new suspects emerge, they will be prosecuted.

So far, only two doctors from the notorious Butyrka jail have been charged with a role in Magnitsky’s death, human rights activists said earlier.

Doctors from the Matrosskaya Tishina detention facility, as well as officials and law enforcers, should also be held accountable, Alexeyeva said.

“First of all, we are seeking prosecution of doctor Gaus, who was in the prison at the time of Magnitsky’s death and claims to have seen him an hour and a half before his death,” the MHG director said.

“Certainly, we will seek the extension of the list. We will work on it,” Alexeyeva said.

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