Anastasiya’s mother, Tatyana Medvedeva, at a 2010 protest against Aliyev in Austria. The sign says, “We demand justice for Aliyev’s victims.”
Anastasiya Novikova’s mother has gotten in touch with this website and given it her endorsement.
Yesterday, June 23, Tatyana Vasilevna Medvedeva, Anastasiya’s mother, informed us that she supports JusticeForNovikova.com.
When Anastasiya’s remains were discovered and identified in 2007, Mrs. Medvedeva began a legal case against Rakhat Aliyev as the prime suspect in her death.
Anastasiya and baby Luiza, in Beirut, September 2003. (From family collection)
She hired an attorney to pursue a prosecution against Aliyev in Beirut, Lebanon, where Anastasiya was held captive and killed, but for reasons that officially remain unclear, at best, the case was dismissed.
In 2010, Anastasiya’s mother appeared at a small protest in Austria to seek justice in Anastasiya’s violent death (see photo).
The slogan on the poster, translated from German, says “We demand justice for Aliyev’s victims.”
Isolated and with few resources, Mrs. Medvedeva has found that her cause has made little traction against Aliyev’s well-funded propaganda campaign that cast him as a political victim.
The second photo on this page is of Anastasiya and newborn Luiza, taken in September 2003. It is identical to the one in the poster that Mrs. Medvedev is holding in the 2010 photo. However, the image in the poster was cropped, cutting out some of the details that appear in the accompanying picture.
The photo of Mrs. Medvedev at the 2010 protest is taken from Mauro Baldetti’s short documentary, “On the Trail of Rakhat Aliyev.”
We hope that the #JusticeForNovikova campaign can help ensure that justice is served.
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