The colony administration disrupts a meeting on commuting the sentence of a defendant in the “Moscow case”

The administration of the colony in the Kostroma region disrupts a meeting on commuting the sentence of the defendant in the “Moscow case” Danil Beglets. This was reported in the public page “Prisoners 212”.

After the decision of the Second Court of Cassation, which decided to send Danil Beglets from a general regime colony to a settlement colony, the defense petitioned to replace the remaining term with a more lenient punishment - for example, a fine or correctional labor.

However, the Sharya District Court of the Kostroma Region, which was supposed to consider this petition (at the location of Beglets in IK-2 of the Kostroma Region in Ponazirevo), postponed the hearings several times because it did not receive a cassation ruling from the Second Cassation Court.

On May 13, the Fugitive was summoned to the colony administration to sign for the receipt of the cassation ruling. If the Fugitive signs, he will be transported to a colony settlement in the Oryol region. The May 18 court hearing to reduce the remaining sentence will not take place, and consideration of the petition will be postponed indefinitely.

If the Fugitive does not sign for receipt of the court ruling, the colony administration will issue a negative reference for the Fugitive, despite the fact that one of the conditions for replacing the remaining sentence with a more lenient punishment is positive references from the colony administration.

The administration of the colony and the Sharya district court are afraid to take responsibility for the fate of the Fugitive, emphasizes the public page “Prisoners 212”, trying to shift the burden of decision-making to the colony and the court in the Oryol region. “Danil Beglets is actually being blackmailed by the fact that if he disobeys, he will be accused of far-fetched violations of the rules of the colony,” the author of the public concludes.

• On October 26, 2019, the fugitive was transferred from the Moscow pre-trial detention center. He is survived by his wife, two-year-old son and three-month-old daughter.
• On September 3, the Tverskoy District Court sentenced Beglets to two years in prison under the article on the use of violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). According to the prosecution, during the action on July 27, the Fugitive grabbed a police officer by the wrist and “squeezed it strongly and pulled it to the side.” In court, he admitted his guilt and asked the investigation to consider the case in a special manner. Because of this, the defense's complaint only asked for a reduction in the sentence, which they considered excessively harsh.
• Previously, Beglets apologized to the injured security officer, after which the lawyer of the protest participant on July 27 petitioned to dismiss the case in connection with the reconciliation of the parties. However, the policeman refused to confirm the fact of reconciliation. *