Nalchik/Agency Caucasus – Larisa Dorogova is receiving threats as a Muslim lawyer of the young people who raided on October 13, 2005, the buildings of security and intelligence service in the capital city Nalchik of Kabardino-Balkaria.
Dorogova was affronted and was even denied entry into a prison where she wanted to see her client. And recently she has received an enveloped bullet, typically used in Kalashnikov rifles. She found the envelope was left in her pigeonhole on Wednesday. The ‘covered’ female lawyer said that in the envelope was also a letter containing verses from the Koran. It read a threat of death, probably received from a Muslim organization.
Dorogova said she had received another similar kind of letter a few days ago. "It seems that these letters are meant to pressure me to stay away from my profession. And the bullet signals a threat of death."
"There is no reason why the Muslims should kill me. I have not done anything bad to any of them. These letter are meant to scare me as well as to point at who is to blame in case something happens to me," said Dorogova. She afterwards said that she handed the letters as well as the bullet in to the Nalchik Prosecutor’s Office.
Dorogova tried hard to bring justice to the Nalchik incidents. She also led a movement in which the Strassbour-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) was appealed to judge after the bodies of the young people who were killed during the incidents were not delivered to the relatives. Afterwards, it became obvious that the Russian state burnt the bodies. Dorogova is expected to bring a couple of new law suits to the ECHR. KU/ÖZ/FT
