Fornication of justice

The story of free “werewolves” and slave girls from “ Pussy Riot ”

Yesterday two significant events occurred that showed the chronic illness of Russian justice:

On April 19, the Leninsky District Court of Voronezh refused to place in custody former employees of the operational investigative unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Voronezh Region, Valery Mochalov and Alexander Novikov, accused in a torture case. Policemen Mochalov and Novikov are accused of torturing three detainees suspected of car theft. The operatives connected electrical wires to the suspended men, turned on the discharge, including passing the current through the mouth. They tortured me for more than 4 hours. After that, the police raped the detainees with a dildo and filmed it on a mobile phone camera. Both employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs successfully passed recertification and are now at large.

On April 19, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow extended for another two months the detention of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich, alleged participants in the “punk prayer” in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior from the group Pussy Riot. The girls are accused of hooliganism and have been in pre-trial detention for two months.

The selectivity of justice and the transformation of the judicial system into a punitive structure are obvious. We all know that for some antisocial act or for making a statement on the Internet, you can easily end up in prison for a long time, and people in pursuit of torture and torture often remain free. The system rolls along the destinies of people, while carefully avoiding “its own”, otherwise who will supply us with slag for processing for the system. At the same time, judges turn the legislation in a way that suits them, hiding behind articles of codes like a fig leaf.

But in the case of the girls from PussyRiot, the court did not even pretend to try to cover up the illegality of their detention. He just cut from the shoulder.

A masterpiece of demagoguery and cynicism was the very petition of investigator Artem Ranchenko for the continued detention of the three women. This probably certified “servant of the law” named the main reasons for the need for the PussyRiot activists to be in a pre-trial detention center to be that the girls, if released on bail, would immediately run back to the KhHS. But the most important thing, in his opinion, is that those under investigation must be hidden from angry and offended believers. And hide it in prison. We don't have any other places for this.

Thank you, but I didn’t even know that last year, it turns out, they didn’t unlawfully hold me for ten months in a pre-trial detention center, but they simply hid me there and took care of me. The citizen chief explained sincerely.

It seems like it's complete nonsense. Such medieval surrealism. But another “servant of the law,” judge Elena Ivanova, fully agreed with the investigator’s request, sending the three women to pre-trial detention for another two months. Colleagues, however.

Or maybe I'm wrong? And in our country, is it really in prison that people are protected and protected from enemies? Maybe I missed something? But let’s open the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation and take a look. So, Article 108 states that detention is used only in cases where it is impossible to use another, more lenient, preventive measure. Also, there is an exhaustive list of circumstances on the basis of which the accused can be kept behind bars. And each of them must be proven. However, no matter how hard I tried, I didn’t find anything there about songs on the pulpit, or about the fact that girls need to be hidden in prison from an angry crowd. By the way, who besides the investigator and the judge saw this very angry crowd of “offended believers demanding severe punishment”?

And this crowd, it turns out, was seen by none other than Deacon Andrei Kuraev, who himself joyfully reports about this in his blog on Ekho Moskvy: “For almost two months now I have been talking about my hope that among the motives for detaining hooligan feminists and keeping them in custody, the motive was to ensure their safety from lynching by the offended Orthodox community... It’s funny...” It turns out that Kuraev has been publicly voicing threats against the girls for two months now and thereby gives the investigator and the court an argument for leaving the PussyRiot activists in the pre-trial detention center. It may not be a legal argument, but who in such a situation will pay attention to the law. And I also have a question: is citizen Kuraev a witness in the PussyRiot case? Judging by the fact that the investigator repeats word for word Kuraev’s sayings about the threat of reprisals against the girls, it is quite possible. Or is this still a secret investigation? Maybe, but in ordinary worldly life such actions are called provocation.

In the hall of the Tagansky District Court, many noticed that when lawyer V. Volkova drew the judge’s attention to the fact that Amnesty International considers the defendants in the case to be “prisoners of conscience,” Judge Elena Ivanova grinned. Kuraev also writes that he finds it funny. They, the funny ones, are having a lot of fun these days. Three girls accused of hooliganism are destined to spend four months in the cells of a pre-trial detention center, and the cops suspected of violence and torturing people with electric shocks are walking free, somewhere near us. For some reason I don't find it funny. What about you?