The verdicts in the BARS case were upheld

The military appeal court in Vlasikha upheld the sentences of the defendants in the Baltic Avant-garde of Russian Resistance (BARS) case, Alexander Orshulevich, Alexander Mamaev, Igor Ivanov and Nikolai Sentsov. Maria Gurenko reported this to OVD-Info.

The accused participated in the hearing via video link from the pre-trial detention center. In April 2020, the 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced Orshulevich to eight years in a general regime colony, Mamaev and Ivanov to six years. Sentsov was sentenced to three years in a penal colony, but was released in the courtroom due to credit for the time spent in a pre-trial detention center.

sentenced Orshulevich, Mamaev and Ivanov were found guilty of public calls for terrorist (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) and extremist activities (Part 1 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code), Orshulevich was also accused of creating an extremist community (Part 1 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code), Mamaev and Ivanov - for participating in it (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). Sentsov was charged only with possession of weapons and explosives (Part 1 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code, Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code). The accused deny their guilt.

• According to investigators, members of the monarchist organization “Baltic Avant-Garde of Russian Resistance” (BARS) forcibly annexed the Kaliningrad region to the European Union. To achieve their goals, according to investigators, the accused intended to apply inscriptions with extremist content using stencils. The defense claims that these stencils were planted during searches. intended - Initially, all four were accused of “extremist” articles, then more serious articles - organization and participation in a terrorist community. Orshulevich was then charged with five articles of the Criminal Code. In early April, the court returned the charge to the article on the extremist community for the three defendants in the case, and left Sentsov with only the article on possession of explosives. changed and reclassified - Alexander Orshulevich, accused of organizing the activities of BARS, that during the search they put a plastic bag over his head and used violence. declared