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Andrei Kosykh, a defendant in the March 26 Case, was sentenced to four years in prison
The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sentenced the defendant in the March 26 Case, Andrei Kosykh, to four years in a general regime colony. A participant reports this from the courtroom. Previously, prosecutor Kozheikin sentenced Kosykh to 4.5 years in a general regime colony. According to Part 1 of Art. 318 of the Criminal Code he received 2 years, under the same article, part 2, three years, in total - 4.
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Kosykh was found guilty of using violence against police officers (Parts 1 and 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) at a rally on March 26 in Moscow. According to investigators, a young man, rising from an underground passage from the Tverskaya metro station, hit police officer Sinegubov in the head with his fist on his Jetta helmet. Kosykh also kicked police warrant officer Gavrilov “in the area of the neck and lower jaw on the right.”According to the indictment, Gavrilov received a closed injury, two abrasions, including on the lips, and a concussion. Kosykh has many positive characteristics from colleagues, former teachers, classmates and neighbors. He held events for and donated 80 books to the local library. His mother is a deputy of the district council and a member of the United Russia party. She said that her son hitchhiked and “was a vegetarian.”
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“I instinctively began to defend those who, in my opinion, were not guilty<...>Your Honor, I think this does not apply to everyone who finds themselves in a situation like me, but for myself I can definitely say, I believe, that I am truly a kind person and this prison is doing everything to change me, to make me angrier and more unscrupulous. And I don’t at all want to change and learn all that dirt<…>Please give me the opportunity to get out of this darkness, the darkness that is around in this prison. I need light as I have never needed it before,” Kosykh said in his last word.After the dispersed protest against corruption on March 26, 2017, a message from the Investigative Committee appeared that a case had been opened regarding attacks on police officers.
, and - detained at the rally on March 26 in Moscow and also accused of violence against government officials - received actual prison sentences ranging from 8 months to 2.5 years.