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The court returned the Bakholdin case to the prosecutor's office
Judge of the Nagatinsky District Court of Moscow Larisa Krutovskaya returned to the prosecutor's office the case of the opposition activist Denis Bakholdin, accused of participating in the ATO as a volunteer of the Right Sector, Echo of Moscow reports .
The judge concluded that the indictment in the Bakholdin case was made up with errors.
At the same time, Politzek was extended to arrest until August 20. The lawyer of Politzek Svetlana Sidorkina is going to appeal the extension of a preventive measure; Prior to the complaint in the Moscow City Court, Bakholdin will remain in the capital. Then it should be transferred to Bryansk.
Bakholdin was brought to Moscow at the end of March; Since the 28th, it was contained in the SIZO-1 "sailor silence". Initially, the meeting in his case was to be held on April 6, but then it was postponed to the 20s.
On December 22, 2017, the judge of the Suzemsky District Court of the Bryansk Region Natalya Shpirko transferred the Politzeck case for consideration to the capital. The regional prosecutor's office appealed this decision, but on February 16, 2018, the judge of the Bryansk regional court Alexei Oparin rejected the complaint of the supervisory authority.
The activist is charged with part 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in an extremist organization), which provides for from 2 to 6 years of the colony. According to the plot of the case, Bakholdin from July 4 to 12, 2015 fought in the ATO zone in the Donbass as part of the 5th separate battalion of the Right Sector Volunteer Corps. It is known that just on July 12 this unit left the conflict zone.
Among the evidence in the case there are materials from a USB drive (flash drive), seized from Bakholdin: in particular, his photograph in a camouflage suit against the backdrop of a Ukrainian flag with an object similar to Kalashnikov’s machine, as well as a certain “guide on action in the field of a sniper”
36-year-old Muscovite Bakholdin, a participant in a number of anti-war protests, emigrated to Ukraine at the end of 2014. He was detained in March 2017 in a border village in the Bryansk region, when he tried to illegally get to Russia to visit his parents. Before the arrest, the FSB officers tortured him - they beat him and kept 12 hours fastened handcuffs to the battery, demanding to confess to the "right sector". In the media, information about the arrest of Bakholdin appeared only on June 19. Investigators of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of Shpakov and Sergey Gutor did business. The arrested did not give any evidence and did not sign any documents. In November, the Investigative Committee completed the preliminary investigation in the case of Politzek.
Before the transfer to Moscow, Bakholdin was contained in the Bryansk Directorate of the FSIN in Novozybkov. The activist was kept under torture conditions in a raw cold chamber of a special block of the insulator under constant video surveillance.
Until December 2017, Politsyk was in the Bryansk pre-trial detention center. In August, Bakholdin was sent to a stationary psychoexpertise to the Moscow Center named after Serbian. There, the administration, after Bakholdin refused to answer questions about the circumstances of the case, provoked his conflict with other prisoners. Because of this, the political prisoner declared a dry hunger strike and held it for five days. As a result, Bakholdin was returned ahead of schedule to Bryansk. After the court of the Suzemka court, he was sent to Novozybkov to transfer the case to Moscow.