The reading of the verdict against Nurpasha Kulaev, the only surviving participant in the Beslan school siege, continued for 8 days.
Nurpasha Kulaev is the only one of the terrorists who seized the school in Beslan who, according to the official version, survived after the storming of the building. The judge of the Supreme Court of North Ossetia, Tamerlan Aguzarov, began announcing the verdict to Kulaev on May 16, 2006, and completed it only on May 26. Kulaev was sentenced to life imprisonment in a maximum security colony.