Moscow - The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has ruled that the murdered family members of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II are not subject to rehabilitation, the office said Wednesday. The rehabilitation as "victims of political repression" of the Romanov family shot dead by Bolshevik forces in 1918 was rejected on the grounds that the Romanovs had never been charged with a crime and had not been sentenced in a court of law before their death.
The Russian human rights organization Memorial criticized the decision as "unfounded."
Nicholas II, the last Russian tsar, was killed with his family by revolutionary Communist forces in 1918.
