Don't get slander

The high court of London rejected the lawsuit of the former Soviet Politsk Vladimir Bukovsky about the protection of the reputation, filed to the Royal Prosecutorial Service in connection with the initiation of a criminal case against him on charges of production and storage of children's pornography. This was reported to the "faces" surrounded by a human rights activist.

In support of such a decision, it was stated that the British prosecutor's office did not report the involvement of Bukovsky in sexual violence of children. Meanwhile, as the human rights activistnoted in an interview with The Insider, "for an ordinary and sane reader ..." Production "of photography means the use of some cameras to make an image of something", and therefore, in the case of children's pornography, the presence of such violence.

Thus, the court sided with the supervisory authority, which denied that in its press release the former political prisoner published in April 2015.

“This is just a fraud,” Bukovsky himself commented on the decision of the court. “The prosecutor’s accusations against me were repeated on all the media, shocked the whole world, destroyed my reputation - and now they tell me that they never did it! It was outraged. For 15 months they tried to introduce people through all types of media that I am some kind of pedophile. And now they say, we are not about that.” Only a business, only an unreasonable reader, and yet, even now they are not trying to correct their ads, this is still placed on their website in the same way.

Bukovsky also said that Britain is not the only country in which provocations were made against him. A private investigation that the human rights activist conducts with his comrades showed that they tried to make similar provocations against him in six countries, mostly former Soviet republics, including Belarus and Lithuania. “In Lithuania, for example, in the end they closed the case,” Bukovsky remarked. “They are already experienced and know what it is like to deal with Russia. And in some other countries they did not understand, attached the importance of this information.”

In provocations, the former political zyt accused the FSB. In Britain, he said, "the authorities are silent and refuse to inform where they received this information." “But at the trial they will have to open the source under the oath. Although now such times that they can simply say that, they say, it is not subject to disclosure,” Bukovsky added.

Lawyers of the human rights activist will appeal to the court decision.

On April 27, 2015, the chief prosecutor of the Royal Prosecutorial Service for Eastern England Jenny Hopkins said that the department based on the investigation conducted by the Cambridgeshir police intends to charge Bukovsky with five episodes of manufacturing and five episodes of storage of obscene photographs of children. On the same day, the former political prisoner and his lawyer notified this decision. The human rights activist categorically rejected suspicion.

The trial for some time was postponed in connection with the treatment and subsequent rehabilitation of Bukovsky.

The former political zyt filed a lawsuit against the Royal Prosecutorial Service in August 2015 . He demanded to recover 100 thousand pounds from the department for diplomas. The human rights activist accused the prosecutor of abuse of powers and the harm of his reputation through false statements. The statements of the department made in connection with the investigation have no reason, Bukovsky emphasized. At the same time, he added, the information of the prosecutor’s service was widespread.

On April 20, 2016, 73-year-old Bukovsky announced a hunger strike because of the delay with consideration of his claim. He sought to ensure that the Magistral Court of the Cambridgir to postpone the hearing in the case against him until the decision was made on the counterclaim to the prosecutor's office.

On May 16, the Magistral Court satisfied Bukovsky’s demand and postponed the hearing until December. After that, the human rights activist took off the hunger strike.

Before considering the claim, Bukovsky’s friends announced a fundraiser for paying for the services of a lawyer to represent the interests of a human rights activist in court. For about a month , more than 37 thousand dollars were raised .