Russian Court Sentences Participant In 1995 Budyonnovsk Hostage Seizure
December 22, 2020 11:32 GMT
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A court in Russia has sentenced a Chechen man to 12 years in prison for his role in a deadly hostage-taking in in the southern city of Budyonnovsk in 1995, a turning point in the first of the two post-Soviet separatist wars in the North Caucasus region of Chechnya.
The Southern Military District Court in the city of Rostov-on-Don on December 22 found Aslan Daudov guilty of banditry, kidnapping, terrorism, and premeditated murder. He was sentenced immediately.
It is not clear whether Daudov pleaded guilty.
On June 14, 1995, a group of Chechen separatists led by Shamil Basayev attacked a local police station and government buildings in Budyonnovsk and took some 1,500 people in a hospital hostage while demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya.
В Ростове вынесли приговор участнику нападения на Будённовск в 1995 году
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Житель Чечни получил 12 лет колонии за нападение на Буденновск
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Члену банды Басаева, напавшей на Буденновск, вынесли приговор
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