Moscow judge Stashina from "Magnitsky list" resigns
MOSCOW. Nov 27 (Interfax) - Judge Yelena Stashina of Moscow's Tverskoy District Court, who is on the so-called Magnitsky list, has tendered her resignation.
"A letter of resignation was received from judge Stashina, the resignation has been accepted," a member of the qualification board of Moscow judges told Interfax on Thursday.
Judge Stashina is known as a judge who presided over a number of high-profile cases, including the 2008 hearing of a request to extend the arrest of auditor Sergei Magnitsky who died in custody later.
On April 12, 2013, the United States authorities named 18 Russian officials on the so-called Magnitsky list, against whom travel and economic sanctions were imposed.
The list included four judges, including Stashina, who worked at Moscow's Tverskoy Court during the Magnitsky trial.
Magnitsky's mother Natalya said earlier that Stashina and her three colleagues rejected 40 complaints from her son when he was still alive. He filed appeals against their rulings, including with the Russian Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights, but did not live to see their hearing.
After the list was unveiled, Stashina continued working at the Tverskoy Court.
Magnitsky, who worked as a legal consultant for Hermitage Capital, was charged with tax evasion and died in Moscow jail on November 16, 2009. The official cause of his death is the acute cardiovascular deficiency.
A number of rights campaigners and Magnitsky's colleagues blamed law enforcement officers, prison doctors and officials for his death.
The death of the Hermitage lawyer prompted a broad public outcry, including abroad. Several countries announced plans to introduce travel and economic restrictions against the officials involved in criminal prosecution of Magnitsky. The U.S. was the first to compile the blacklist.
