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The Russian presidential council for human rights will insist on the completion of the inquiry into who ordered and organized the murder of Boris Nemtsov, the head of the council, Mikhail Fedotov, said.

“The main thing about verdict is not its strictness but its imminence. This is why we will insist that all those who played a part in this crime should be brought to justice. And the separate criminal case over who organized and ordered this murder must be completed,” Fedotov told Interfax, commenting on the sentencing of Nemtsov’s killers.

Earlier on July 13 the Moscow district military court sentenced Zaur Dadayev to 20 years of imprisonment after the jury found him guilty of killing Nemtsov. The defendants whom the jury found to have acted as his accomplices were sentenced to prison terms of eleven to 19 years.