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So far, they defended
The Medusa correspondent Ivan Golunov sent the court under house arrest. Two days of colleagues and simply caring throughout the country and abroad called on the release of a journalist
The Nikulinsky court of Moscow refused the investigation and sent the journalist-investigator of the Internet publication of Medusa Ivan Golunov not in jail, but under house arrest until August 7. He is forbidden to go beyond the apartment. He is forbidden to use the phone and the Internet.
Before the court’s meeting, the investigator called the lawyer on the appointment, since the court “lost” the order of the lawyer Olga Dinze. She was not allowed to get acquainted with the case file. “The bailiffs will also repair obstacles. The enchanting resistance of the system, of course, ” said Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora international human rights group. According to him, as a result, lawyers were given 15 minutes to familiarize themselves with the materials. Then the bailiffs, on the direction of the judge, took them. The defenders barely managed to familiarize themselves with a half, stated Chikov.
During the meeting, lawyers asked for a break to familiarize themselves with the case and agree on positions, but the judge refused. In total, Golunov was protected by three lawyers, one of whom was for their intended purpose. The judge allowed the video to shoot only the announcement of the decision, and not the whole process.
Before the meeting, Golunov managed to tell reporters: “I never thought that I would visit my funeral. Thank you very much. ”
Galina Timchenko general director Galina Timchenko, who was waiting for the news near the court of the court, shared with the NT correspondent with her thoughts: “This is all connected only with his journalistic activity. With the investigations that Medusa published and which will still publish. Forbus were the threats, sometimes they arrived, but in the last three to four months they became almost regular and very serious. I have already said repeatedly that I turned to Dmitry Muratov for advice on how to be in these cases. But Ivan, unfortunately, refused help. He was an extremely independent person and did not allow any patronage. Therefore, he preferred not to disclose the conflict even to such a respected person as Dmitry Muratov. ”
Journalist Alexander Arkhangelsky, who also came to support a colleague, believes that criminal cases similar to Golunov’s case, “is a sign of weakness of those power structures that do not know how to manage a democratic society.” “I have no doubt that he is innocent. I am familiar with many of his close friends. These are the people whom I personally trust, ”says Arkhangelsk.
In total, about 200 people gathered near the court of the court, according to the NT correspondent. By evening, they became more and more. Journalists of the rain put on the T -shirts#Freedogolunov, the same slogan chanted the audience.
Lawyers at the trial presented the characteristics of the journalist. In particular, from Forbes, where Golunov worked in 2005-2008: “It is characterized extremely positively, wrote many articles, have never encountered the facts of the use of narcotic substances.” From the characteristics of the editor -in -chief of the "Medusa" Ivan Kolpakov: “We know exclusively on the positive side, Ivan is an unusual, smart, fundamental, attentive journalist, chooses socially significant topics. He does not use and does not drink. " The guarantees for Golunov was presented by the publisher of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov and the editor -in -chief of Echo of Moscow Alexei Venediktov: they vouching that Ivan will come to court and not impede the investigation.
Lawyer Olga Dinze noted that the protocol on the detention of Golunov was drawn up later than the fact of detention: the actual detention occurred on June 6 at 14:30, the investigator drew up a protocol at 03:50:50 on June 7, and not within three hours, as the CPC requires. The investigator had to decide on the release, in connection with the exceeding the period of detention at 48 hours. Dinze asked the court to return the materials to the investigator. But the judge refused a petition.
Lawyer Dmitry Dzhulay insisted in court that the investigation had no evidence of the guilt of Golunov. “When detaining, the handcuffs fastened him, the backpack was behind him,” he said . The defense believes that the operatives could throw drugs, this also indicates the testimony of the understood, according to which the bag in the backpack lay on top of all other things. If the journalist really wore a drug with drugs in a backpack, he would have mixed up with other things. Julai also noted that the investigator did not take fabrics from the inner part of the backpack - this, according to the lawyer, is a standard procedure in the investigation of such cases. When the security forces arrived at the journalist’s house, he sat in the car below for 20-30 minutes, and the police had the keys to the apartment, and they could get inside. A package of drugs at home and scales were found when the policeman disappeared from the field of view of the journalist and witnesses. Another strange circumstance: Golunov supposedly had a cheap drug with him, and at home - dear cocaine. In conclusion, Julai said that Golunov could be under house arrest; He collaborates with the investigation since the lawyer was allowed to go to him.
Golunov himself in court stated that he had never used drugs, at the time of the detention he had no resistance, although people in civilian clothes first put him in the car and only then showed a certificate. He noted that for 14 hours he was deprived of the defense of the lawyer and communication with relatives.
“I am not to blame for anything, I am ready to cooperate with the investigation if it adheres to the rules of the game. I support the arguments of my defenders, ”he concluded.
After that, the judge retired to the deliberation room.
Golunov managed to start that he was most likely thrown by drugs due to investigations about the funeral business .
People who did not get to the meeting, standing on the street, chanted: "Freedom!" Their voices were heard in the courtroom. One person was detained by the police.
Golunov was taken to the court of the 71st hospital, where doctors examined the journalist within a few hours. After the examination of the head physician of the 71st city hospital, Alexander Myasnikov said that the doctors did not find a concussion or fractures of the ribs from Golunov. This was confirmed by computed tomography. Therefore, it was decided to write out a journalist, said the editor -in -chief of Echo of Moscow, a member of the Public Chamber of Moscow Alexei Venediktov.
Pavel Chikov, in turn, noted that four hours the police behind closed doors talked with doctors: “They didn’t let lawyers. The doctors of the ambulance are well done, and the sick leave lilac. The defense has no access to medical documents. It is impossible to evaluate what, how and whom in reality, it was impossible. There is no trust in such a “medical care”.
Medusa notes that the head physician of the 71st hospital Alexander Myasnikov at a rally in support of Vladimir Putin on March 3, 2018 stood next to the president. He also maintains a program on the radio with Vladimir Solovyov, is a guest of Solovyov’s TV show on Russia-1 and leads his own program on the same channel. In 2009-2010, Myasnikov was the chief physician of the Kremlin hospital of the Presidential Affairs Management of the Russian Federation.
“The choice in which hospital to take Ivan was clearly not accidental,” Chikov believes .
In the morning, after the charge of attempting to be a large -scale drug, Kolunov felt badly. Arriving doctors of the ambulance declared the need for his hospitalization, but the police opposed. Only after the second emergency team confirmed the fears of the first, Golunov was taken to the hospital. Doctors suspected him of a concussion and a fracture of the ribs.
While Golunov was in the hospital, 48 hours have expired from the moment of his detention, allocated by law for its detention without a court decision. But investigators counted the term not from the moment of detention, but from the moment the protocol was drawn up. The difference between these two points is about 12 hours.
In the morning of June 8, journalists and representatives of the public were on duty at the Nikulinsky Court building. This was not only the expectation of the court session, but also the support campaign - people took turns standing with posters, conducting single pickets. More than 60 thousand people signed a petition on Change.org in defense of Ivan Golunov. Promotions in his support are held throughout Russia and abroad.
Golunov, detained on June 6, was charged today of an attempt on a sales of narcotic drugs. The journalist denies the charge and says that the drugs were thrown back to him. He was engaged in journalistic investigations for the Medusa portal. Colleagues are sure that he is pursued in connection with professional activities. Journalists throughout the country and abroad spoke in defense of Golunov. The trade union of journalists , other journalistic and human rights associations, the editorial offices of many publications and just colleagues called for liberation. Golunov’s detention - with many procedural disorders and absurd suspicions - is perceived as another blow to freedom of speech. Read some opinions of the media about the detention of Golunov here .
Read the investigations of Ivan Golunov here .
The leading world media also write about the case of Golunov, including BBC , Reuters , The Washington Post , The Times , The New York Times , Bloomberg , Independent , The Guardian , Euronews .