CASE OF ZARA MURTAZALIYEVA: SECRETARY OF THE "RUSSIAN RADICALS" HAS JOINED THE APPEAL OF RUSSIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS TO REVIEW THE CASE OF TWENTY- YEAR-OLD CHECHEN STUDENT

Moscow, March 20, 2005. The secretary of the movement "Russian Radicals" Nikolaj Khramov has joined the appeal initiated by the Russian human rights activists calling for a just review of the case of Zara Murtazaliyeva, twenty- year-old Chechen student arrested in Moscow one year ago and recently sentenced to 9 years of imprisonment on the accusation forged by the FSB.

The link to the appeal in defence of Zara Murtazaliyeva and the form for adhesion of citizens to this appeal are available on the site of the movement "Russian Radicals" (www.radikaly.ru [1]), collection of signatures under the appeal is being carried out on the site "Human rights in Russia" (www.hro.org [2]).

The details on the case of Murtazaliyeva, the text of the appeal in her defence and the form for on-line adhesion to the appeal are available here: http://www.hro.org/war/2005/03/zara.php [3].