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6000 days of Pichugin
None of us know what it feels like to sit on life and know that you are not to blame for anything
6000 days or 16 years 5 months - so many specific days for today (November 22, 2019) are in captivity Alexei Pichugin, a former employee of the Yukos company security service. A person who is talking about little. But about which everyone knows. As a hostage of the Yukos case, most of all the victim and still suffering.
6000 days. None of us know what it feels like to sit on life and know that you are not to blame for anything. What is this number of days in captivity can do with a person? What to turn into?
6000 days of Pichugin can be stated with dotted line. June 19, 2003 ... The very first arrest in the company is the step of the authorities that marked the beginning of the war against Yukos. In relation to the ordinary employee of Pichugin - immediately slaughter charges of organizing custom -made murders. On his part, too, a categorical rejection of perjury is both against himself and leadership. Further visits to him to the pre -trial detention center of the FSB officers, conversations without lawyers, pressure with the use of potent psychotropes - the so -called “serum of truth”. The security forces really wanted to make a promoted witness of the prosecution. But nothing happened.
He was followed by a refusal even when he was described “rainbow” prospects.
Then the two vessels, one of which went in the Moscow City Court for the doors closed along absolutely far -fetched grounds and was accompanied by the dissolution of the jury and the replacement of them with another college, the second court saw the audience, but he also left no doubt about the prejudice and bias of the accusation. By the way, some prosecutors immediately refused to participate in the Pichugin process, seeing how they process the jury. Others did not refuse and received promotions and positions. And some witnesses of the accusations - for example, frank criminals Tsigelnik and Reshetnikov - subsequently directly admitted: they were forced to stipulate Pichugin and leaders in exchange for infescents in terms. The convicts will be thrown, although they will say. And including at their testimony of a person, they will be sent to a pancreas.
6000 days. They fit them for several years in Lefortovo, then constantly the Orenburg colony for the Black Dolphin’s lifelongs - a terrible and unbearable place in their energy. From Dolphin, over these 16 years, he was periodically pulled out to Moscow - the security forces who were sculpting the third “Yukos case” still hoped to achieve evidence at the MBH already pardoned and located abroad. The logic of the security forces was banal: after all, it should be in a person sitting for so many years, to click something in order to change his fate. But again nothing was achieved from him. They simply did not understand Pichugin and his nature: this is a person who does not go to any compromises and transactions to facilitate his fate. Never. Blackmarked relatives - they were forced to leave. And again, not a word to the detriment of others. Even Khodorkovsky could no longer withstand and publicly urged Pichugin to “participate in this show” - to give the resulting evidence in exchange for freedom. And again not.
It is difficult to judge this stubbornness.
The story of Pichugin has long passed into some unknown to us, ordinary inhabitants, a biblical plane.
6000 days. Over the years, Amnesty International, Memorial, the UN and other international organizations, have played for it. Strasbourg twice made decisions on the need to revise the criminal cases and sentences of Pichugin and conduct new - fair - trials. Russia did not revise anything and later refused twice his petitions for pardon.
The president did not answer anything and personally addressed to him, written from wild despair, the letter of Pichugin’s mother, whose pain level is difficult to imagine.
6000 days. In the “Black Dolphin” stream every day (so censorship does not have time to cope) letters from different ends of the country and the world - from very different people who never personally knew Pichugin, but who believe in his innocence: teachers, engineers, journalists, pensioners, human rights activists, entrepreneurs, housewives. This is the price of a lie that poured from the state of state about Yukos. Propaganda ultimately lost. And a person who, for 16 years, refuses to give the false testimonies the required general prosecutor’s office, and then - the Investigative Committee, turned out to be higher than this propaganda and these security forces with their psychotropes and other provocations.
6000 days. During this time, the country finally lost the remnants of at least some justice.
6000 days. During this time, the country has become the norm of torture and killing people in colonies and prisons.
6000 days. During this time, the country itself became like a "black dolphin." But even for such relative freedom, a person is still better than not at large.
What can we do specifically for Pichugin? Write letters to him. For him and as many political prisoners - these letters from the will mean a lot and help to hold on.
What can we do? Go to rallies in support of political prisoners with his portrait too.
What can we do? Read and distribute about the case of Pichugin’s book, the author of which Vera Vasilieva thoroughly and in detail explains for many years to the failure of each episode and lists persons who fabricated the charges and then received high ranks and awards, such as the head of the investigative group Yuri Burtova. It was he who refused to conduct an operational independent medical examination of Pichugin after case with psychotropes. It was he, being an investigator, actively branded, spoke of guilt and hung new charges of Pichugin in Karaulov’s programs - even before the court sentenced. It was he who managed to call the confessor of the accused for interrogation.
6000 days. This is a story about the extremely selfless and deeply meaningful life of one individual person. Life is not a lie in the conditions of everyday hell.