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Netherlands Settles Compensation for Russian Activist’s Suicide

© RIA Novosti . Evgeni Biyatov / Go to the mediabankRussian opposition activist Alexander Dolmatov who committed suicide after being denied political asylum in the Netherlands
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Dutch authorities have reached a compensation agreement with the mother of a Russian opposition activist who committed suicide after being denied political asylum in the Netherlands last year, a Dutch media outlet said Thursday

MOSCOW, January 16 (RIA Novosti) – Dutch authorities have reached a compensation agreement with the mother of a Russian opposition activist who committed suicide after being denied political asylum in the Netherlands last year, a Dutch media outlet said Thursday. 

The settlement over Alexander Dolmatov’s death is still being finalized and the amount of compensation is not being disclosed, DutchNews portal reported, citing an interview with an unnamed Justice Ministry spokesman on Nos television. 

Dolmatov, an activist with the unregistered Other Russia opposition party whom the Russian authorities wanted to question in connection with violence at an opposition rally in Moscow in 2012, hanged himself exactly one year ago in the Rotterdam deportation center where he was being held after his asylum request was rejected. 

The Dutch Justice Ministry said in a report published last April that the agencies dealing with immigration issues had acted carelessly in their treatment of the activist, but stopped short of blaming anyone in particular. 

The report said Dolmatov should not have been held in detention because he was appealing against having his claim for asylum rejected. There were also some discrepancies in the case’s paperwork.

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