KAZAN -- Tatarstan's Supreme Court has upheld the acquittal of two police officers accused of shooting and killing an unarmed civilian, RFE/RL's correspondent reports from the capital, Kazan.
Two plainclothes agents of Tatarstan's Interior Ministry -- Ruslan Taziev and Vladimir Alekseyev -- mistakenly entered a wrong apartment during an operation to arrest members of an organized criminal group in January 2007.
They shot the apartment's owner to death and wounded his father-in-law.
Kazan's Kirov District Court found both police officers not guilty.
The chief of Kazan's Center for Human Rights, Igor Sholokhov, told RFE/RL that he and his colleagues are going to appeal the decision by Tatarstan's Supreme Court to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
Two plainclothes agents of Tatarstan's Interior Ministry -- Ruslan Taziev and Vladimir Alekseyev -- mistakenly entered a wrong apartment during an operation to arrest members of an organized criminal group in January 2007.
They shot the apartment's owner to death and wounded his father-in-law.
Kazan's Kirov District Court found both police officers not guilty.
The chief of Kazan's Center for Human Rights, Igor Sholokhov, told RFE/RL that he and his colleagues are going to appeal the decision by Tatarstan's Supreme Court to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.