MOSCOW, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- The descendants of Nicholas II have demanded that Russia rule the death the last czar in 1918 at the hands of the Bolsheviks a political crime.
Unless that happens, they say they will take their "historical justice" campaign to the European Court of Humans Rights, reports Britain's Independent.
The issue has come up after Russia's general prosecutor refused to recognize Nicholas II and his family as "victims of political repression." He said due to the absence of documentary evidence of an explicit Bolshevik order to kill the czar, his wife and children, the incidents would only be treated as an ordinary criminal case.
The descendants say without the ruling, their forebears would be classified as criminals. They want them rehabilitated the same way victims of Joseph Stalin's purges had their reputations restored, the report said.
