{"id":3331,"date":"2020-12-22T11:32:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T11:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=142218"},"modified":"2020-12-22T11:32:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T11:32:13","slug":"russian-court-sentences-participant-in-1995-budyonnovsk-hostage-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/22\/russian-court-sentences-participant-in-1995-budyonnovsk-hostage-seizure\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Court Sentences Participant In 1995 Budyonnovsk Hostage Seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ffdb689c-2ae5-441f-9fee-39fcb7f5bf80_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>A court in Russia has sentenced a Chechen man to 12 years in prison for his role in a deadly hostage-taking in in the southern city of Budyonnovsk in 1995, a turning point in the first of the two post-Soviet separatist wars in the North Caucasus region of Chechnya.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Military District Court in the city of Rostov-on-Don on December 22 found Aslan Daudov guilty of banditry, kidnapping, terrorism, and premeditated murder. He was sentenced immediately.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear whether Daudov pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n<p>On June 14, 1995, a group of Chechen separatists led by Shamil Basayev attacked a local police station and government buildings in Budyonnovsk and took some 1,500 people in a hospital hostage while demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya.<\/p>\n<p>About 150 people were killed, while the surviving hostages were released following a five-day siege after Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin promised a cease-fire in Chechnya and gave Basayev and his backers safe passage back to Chechnya.<\/p>\n<p>The deal to resolve the crisis paved the way for an August 1996 agreement that ended the war.<\/p>\n<p>A second war erupted in 1999, with then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin playing a prominent role in decision-making, after Basayev led militants in an incursion into neighboring Daghestan.<\/p>\n<p>Basayev, who became the most-wanted man in Russia, was killed in an explosion in 2006.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"wsw__h6\">With reporting by TASS and Interfax<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/22\/russian-court-sentences-participant-in-1995-budyonnovsk-hostage-seizure\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court in Russia has sentenced a Chechen man to 12 years in prison for his role in a deadly hostage-taking in in the southern city of Budyonnovsk\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,633,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3332,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions\/3332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}