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The court upheld the sentence to Torbeev
The court rejected the complaint to the verdict of the Left Front activist Grigory Torbeev, sentenced to a year and a half of the penal colony on charges of throwing a burning fire on a police officer at the Day of Anger in 2010. The court found Torbeev to be guilty of committing a crime under part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code (the application of violence in relation to a representative of the authorities). The Tver court ignored all the positive characteristics provided by the protection. "Today, Torbeev’s cassation appeal was considered. The verdict was upheld," said the coordinator of the left front Sergey Udaltsov Interfax.
“All this is done against the backdrop of Medvedev’s statement about checking the sentences on this list,” Udaltsov added. On Monday, President Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Prosecutor General’s Office until April 1 to analyze the legality and validity of sentences to 32 persons included in the list of political prisoners . Among the political prisoners were Torbeev. According to the Kremlin press service, the order was made following the results of Medvedev’s meeting with the leaders of the unsystematic opposition, which took place on February 20. The list includes, in particular, the defendants in Yukos’s affairs Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev and Alexei Pichugin, physicist Valentin Danilov, a participant in strategy-31 Sergey Mokhnatkin, as well as activists of another Russia, convicted of the riots on Manezhnaya Square and other cases.
The consideration of the case of Torbeev began in mid -September. Three witnesses from the prosecution were heard. The process was also performed by the victim, police officer Yevgeny Kovalev. He stated that he had no complaints about Torbeev, since he compensated him for the harm caused. Kovalev asked the court to take this as a softening circumstance.
Torbeev was detained on the evening of November 12, 2010 in Moscow on Tverskaya Square during the acceleration of anger day. Within six months it was kept in Butyrsky pre -trial detention center. According to the case file, Torbeev hit Kovalev with a burning fire in his face. Later, in the emergency room, the police officer recorded a bruise on his face and abrasions, but there was no talk of damage to the eyes. Meanwhile, eyewitnesses of the incident and the lawyer from the words of the accused said that Torbeev did nothing that could harm the health of the policeman.
