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Mikhail Kosenko will be treated forcibly
On October 8, in the Zamoskvoretsky court announced the verdict Mikhail Kosenko. The defendant of the "Swamp business" was sent for unlimited treatment
Kosenko was found guilty under Article 212 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Participation in Massion Riots”. The prosecution did not ask for a term for the defendant, since he was recognized as insane. The treatment period depends on the decision of the doctor.
The conclusion of a forensic examination
On October 1, after the debate of the parties, Mikhail Kosenko performed with the last word in the courtroom:
“The greatest value in the country is freedom. It is this majority of the population of our country to one degree or another. First of all, this applies to prisoners. A huge number of people in prisons and camps sits for anything, and no one will help them. And those who sit for a crime do not deserve those conditions. As the prisoners themselves say, no one was able to recover after the imprisonment. The position of the mentally ill prison, the most difficult for them is Haloperidol, the prohibited drug. From it, side effects and many deaths, it causes muscle convulsions and constraint, pain is felt.
Our people are accustomed to suffering, in Russia the eastern model of society is being built - not free in exchange for a well -fed life. The authorities are building its propaganda on material indicators: money spent and their results. Happiness is not in money - an ancient thought, although disputed now. Happiness is in the freedom of people. There are many countries where the material level is lower than in Russia, but the level of satisfaction with life is much better. Our people are used to living poorly, and a minor prosperity seems to him a significant achievement.
Freedom is independence from evil. Real opportunities. Our country has great opportunities for their implementation of freedoms of various kinds, but they are not or they are limited. The freedom of the media ... The main of them is television, and there is a censorship on it, which is prohibited.
The government imposes its strategy to reporters on television. And therefore, for opposition, pickets, rallies, processions are so important. And in this field, the authorities decided to compete with the opposition. The rallies and processions organized by the authorities do not make impressions, and the authorities went by creating all kinds of interference. The authorities decided that it was determining the venue for rallies, although the law says the opposite. The opposition wants to hold a rally in one square, and the authorities are imposing another. Our society, accustomed to violations of the law, does not care much. Then the authorities use the creation of interference, inconvenience, moral pressure, trying to make a rally ineffective, to limit the rally area, as was the case on May 6, 2012.
Having sharply limited the rally area, unlike the coordinated, the authorities considered their requirements illegal requirements. Because the authorities think that the law is it. When several dozen people broke through the cordon in the tide, the authorities decided that now it has the right to disperse several tens of thousands of people who came to the rally. The authorities with their tactics, politically motivated actions, constantly caused irritation of people who repulsed illegal actions. Power violates the law, and when he receives a rebuff, he builds himself a lawyer with his 318th article. The riot police perceived the demonstrators as their enemies, which means they were previously tuned, act hard, and react hard. The riot police were clearly not in the representatives of the law in Bolotnaya Square. The actions of the riot police in Bolotnaya Square were politically motivated by their superiors. It was a political confrontation. The demonstrators were protested against the unfair elections ... The requirement of fair elections is the most fair requirement. Power against honest and fair elections, because then it will leave. The power consists to a large extent of incompetent people, of people who violate the law. We need a rotation of power, not an eternal stay of a single regime. The current regime of Russia cannot cope with serious tasks that will be inevitable in the future.
Huge efforts that the authorities sometimes demonstrate, in combination with low efficiency, lead to results much less than they could be. Throughout the history of our country, power has never been transferred to the opposition by law. The current government has many anti -records: the highest consumption in the world of heroin, the same with alcohol. And such power is competent? Should she stay forever? People who protest against her are wrong?
Often supporters of the authorities say that there is no one to rule the country more. This is doubtful. In Russia, the abyss of talented and strong -willed people and they can go into power only with honest and fair elections. I want to thank everyone who supported me, lawyers, sister, everyone who came to these meetings. ”
Kosenko completed his speech with the words: "As for my sanity, I ask the court to consider me sane."
The New Times previously publishedthe material of Yegor Skovoroda on how the recognition of prisoners mentally ill promotes political repression , as well as a portrait of Mikhail Kosenko in the “Swamp People” cycle .