Wolves in protective skins

The process of exclusion of Marina Litvinovich from the PMC is the final stage of replacing human rights activists with former jailers

Today, the Commission of the Public Chamber on Security and Interaction with the PMC decided whether Marina Litvinovich’s most active member would exclude from the Moscow commission. The meeting was held closed, the media and other human rights defenders were not allowed on him. The final decision on Litvinovich should be made by the Council of the Public Chamber on the basis of the vote of the Security Commission. The date of the final decision is still unknown.

The defeat of public observation commissions, the process of replacing human rights activists who really defend the rights of prisoners, to veterans of the Federal Penitentiary Service, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the army has been going on for many years. And now he approaches his logical conclusion.

Let me briefly remind you of the history of public observation commissions, the sunset of which we are observing today.

The bill on the PMC was submitted to the State Duma back in 2000, but the deputies were able to accept its deputies only after eight years, on June 10, 2008. And it was a progressive law that allows you to disperse prisons and colonies, to launch air there and thereby end the legal bacchanalia that was happening there.

The first compositions of the PMC throughout the country included people who have been engaged in human rights all their lives, they had the slightest doubt that the convicts had the right to human attitude to themselves. Including those who are in jail and whose guilt in the commission of the crime has not yet been proven during the trial.

For example, the first composition of the Moscow PMS was headed by the famous human rights activist Valery Borschev, Soviet dissident, deputy of the State Duma of the first and second convocations.

Borschev two convocations, until 2013, headed the Moscow PMS. It was during these years that the murder of Sergei Magnitsky had been investigating.

The conclusion of the Moscow PMS on this tragedy for a long time ignored, but in the end the Prosecutor General’s Office was forced to recognize this document as a serious accusation against the FSIN employees. And it was this conclusion that became a signal for the authorities that such an PMC system is not needed.

In 2013, human rights activist Valery Borschev was replaced by Anton Tsvetkov, the leader of the patriotic organization "Officers of Russia". Of the forty members of the Moscow Moscow, 23 voted for the organization to lead Tsvetkov. Already in the formation of the PMC of the second and subsequent convocations, the “well -wishers” took advantage of the loophole in the Law on the PMC itself: it provides that any public organizations can nominate candidates for members of the PMC. Not human rights, but any. The “officers of Russia” and the organizations of veterans of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSIN began to nominate candidates.

“Russian officers” just correctly established themselves in the same “Magnitsky case”, when they defended Dmitry Kratov, who accused the Magnitsky deputy chief of the Butyrka pre -trial detention center. Kratov was charged with an article by the Criminal Code “negligence, which entailed by negligence of the death of a person,” but the accused was justified.

In 2017, members of the Council of Human Rights under the President of Russia Elena Masyuk and Andrey Babushkin were squeezed out of the new composition of Moscow PMS. But the member of the PMC was the ex-head of the Butyrka pre-trial detention center, the person involved in the Magnitsky List Dmitry Komnov.

And such a picture was all over Russia. FSIN veterans filled the regional PMCs.

Alas, in reality, their activity looks like an attempt to “seize” prisons and colony, so that society again ceases to receive information about what is actually happening inside the penitentiary system.

Here is a very fresh example. The deputy head of the PMC of the Vladimir region Vladimir Grigoryan said that Navalny was a simulator. At the same time, Grigoryan did not visit Alexei Navalny in Pokrovskaya IK-2, did not study his documents, because he himself is in the hospital, receives qualified medical care. But then Grigoryan proudly said that "he worked for almost 30 years in this FSIN."

This statement is easy to verify: Grigoryan really served in the penitentiary system for thirty years, rose to the title of lieutenant colonel. And having retired, he went to human rights activists.

So Marina Litvinovich, apparently, will also be replaced by a pensioner FSIN.