The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the 20-year prison sentence of a Chechen woman convicted in an apparently aborted suicide bombing attempt on Tverskaya Ulitsa in downtown Moscow, Interfax reported. Zarema Muzhikhoyeva was arrested in July 2003 after her strange behavior attracted the attention of security guards at a restaurant, and a bomb was found in her bag. A bomb expert was brought in to defuse it, but it went off and killed him.
| I'd guess that was why her sentence was upheld... |
A Moscow court found her guilty of terrorism, attempted murder and illegal possession of explosives, and sentenced her in April to 20 years in prison. Muzhikhoyeva's lawyers appealed the ruling, asking the Supreme Court to quash the sentence and send the case back to the court for a new trial. They cited her aid to the investigation in their request for leniency, news agencies reported.
| I think she should only be jugged until the guy's not dead anymore, but maybe that's just me... |
Based on testimony after her arrest, security officials located a house in the Moscow region where bombers' explosives were assembled. Interfax did not give the court's reasons for rejecting the appeal.
| Maybe they should ask the dead guy... |
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