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"He was forced to sleep in shackles"
The avalanche of “fakes” and “Gosisman” - even among pensioners, new affairs against “foreign agents” and evidence of medieval torture. Review
Photo: Stepan Kulinich / Kommersant
Since the beginning of the special operation in Russia, more than 270 criminal cases of “fakes about the army” and 81 cases of its “discredit” have been instituted, the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin reported. 134 cases “On Fakes” against 136 people and 44 cases of “discrediting” against 45 people reached the trial.
In addition, the head of the UK boasted in an interview with RIA Novosti that investigators began to ask less often about the arrest of the accused. However, the statistics of the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation indicate the opposite. The number of applications considered to choose a preventive measure in the form of detention in recent years has not changed and stably keeps about 50 thousand in each half -year. What is hidden behind these dry numbers of Bastrykin and what exactly his subordinates pursue, we continue to tell in the traditional section - “Chronicle of current repressions”.
The process against the supporter of Navalny
At the end of December, the Industrial District Court of Izhevsk began consideration of the case against the 20-year-old student Artemy Perevoschikov, who was detained due to graffiti with anti-war slogans. He was accused of vandalism based on political hatred (part 2 of article 214 of the Criminal Code) and participation in the extremist community (part 2 of article 282.1 of the Criminal Code).
The security forces detained Perevoschikov in March 2023. According to investigators, he made red paint “Freedom Navalny” and anti -war inscriptions in the snow and “city infrastructure facilities” in the center of Izhevsk. The student admitted to the police that "he allegedly received instructions on making inscriptions on the website of the" headquarters of Navalny "*, received all the instructions there."
The anonymous telegram channel “Operational Summers” published a video with an apology of the young man before the army and “Before Russia as a whole”. On the frames, he repents and says that "he is ready to participate in his own." Perevoschikov was sent to a pre -trial detention center in Izhevsk, later he was transferred to Moscow. At the end of December, it turned out that the accused was returned to Izhevsk.
"Fakes" and "discrediting"
The opposition policy of Mikhail Khodorkovsky ** was again put on the wanted list because of the new criminal case, wrote “layout” **. According to the publication, a case of “fakes” about the Russian army was initiated against the politician (part 1 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). The reason for the new persecution was a tweet of the number of those killed in the Russian army. The case was opened in September 2023.
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Against the ex-journalist of the “important stories” *** Ekaterina Fomina opened a criminal case of military “fakes”, widespread by a group of people and from selfish motives (paragraph “b” and paragraph “G” of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), TASS reports .
“People in Russia already have no access to independent media, now the authorities are working to denigrate journalists, so that even those who remained and continue to write about life in Russia, do not believe,” Fomina commented on their persecution with the BBC Russian service.
The reason was the interview, which she took in August 2022 from the Russian military Daniil Frololkin. A case was also opened against him under an article on the spread of “fakes” about the Russian army, later he was sentenced to five and a half years of a conditional term.
Fomina is currently outside the country.
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A resident of Taganrog, Irina Skorovarova, was sent under house arrest in the case of re -discrediting the army (Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code), her lawyer Pavel Solodovnikov said. According to him, the reason for the persecution was a video about the Russian military, published on the Skorovarova page in Odnoklassniki.
Earlier, on January 11, the FSB officer wrote to her on social networks and asked to come and give explanations without saying what reason. Then he called her and informed her that he was standing at her door and he needed to search, and then deliver to Skorovarov to the Investigative Committee. She replied that she was not at home and would arrive in a couple of hours, to which the security forces said that she would wait until five o’clock in the evening, and then break the door.
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The Cherepovets City Court sentenced human rights activist Grigory Winter to three years in a general regime in the case of military "fakes", the OVD-info said, citing his lawyer Sergei Tikhonov.
The human rights activist is persecuted because of the commentary on the victims of the military conflict and eight reposts. The case was opened in September 2022, then Winter was sent to a pre -trial detention center. In October of the same year, he was transferred under house arrest, and in November 2023 they changed the preventive measure to ban certain actions.
The prosecutor asked to appoint a human rights activist six years and three months in a general regime colony. Before the verdict
Winter turned to Vladimir Putin with a letter and asked him to allow him voluntary euthanasia Tom if he is appointed a real term.
The defendant of the case is sick with diabetes, he fears that in the colony he will not be provided with the necessary medicines, which is why he will find "painful death among other people's, cruel and extremely indifferent people."
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The Kazan activist Zulfi Sitdikova was charged with the rehabilitation of Nazism (part 3 of article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) and re-discrediting the army (part 1 of article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) due to the poster.
The activist was detained with a poster at the end of May 2023, but was released from the police department without a protocol. On July 18, it became known that in the wake of this detention against Sitdikov, a criminal case was opened on the repeated discredit of the army, the posters formed the basis of one of the episodes of the case, the second episode arose due to anti-war inscription at the Eternal Flame in the Kazan Victory Park. The activists were searched, she was interrogated in the status of the suspect and released.
According to IDEL. REALIALS **, the criminal case was based on the conclusion of the linguist Ekaterina Palehi and psychologist Anastasia Kasimova from the Kazan Interregional Center for Expertise.
In the number and three letters on the poster, they found signs of “negative assessment of the activities of the Armed Forces of the USSR”, “negative assessment of the days of military glory and memorable dates”,
“Information aimed at creating a negative emotional assessment and a negative semantic attitude, a negative stereotype against representatives of the Red Army”, “The depreciation of the Day of Military Glory and a memorable date”, “Humaning the honor and dignity of veterans of the Great Patriotic War and the insult of the memory of representatives of the Red Army who died during it”.
Gosizman
In November last year, the Dzerzhinsky court of St. Petersburg arrested Ruslan Semitko on charges of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code), confirmed the Mediazone ** in the press service of the court. The essence of the matter is unknown because the materials are classified.
The journalists of the publication found the man full namesake of the graduates of the Sevastopol Naval Institute named after Nakhimov. He graduated from the university in 1999 with a degree in shipping. A 47-year-old man pointed out on VKontakte that he had a childhood in Kyiv, and after the institute he served in the naval forces of Ukraine. In 2016, he tried to appeal in the court of Simferopol the refusal of the Russian military to appoint him a seniority pension, but his lawsuit was not accepted.
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The Omsk Regional Court received the case against a man (the name on the court’s website is hidden on the court’s website), who is accused of trying to transfer secret information to representatives of Germany of exchange for help in moving to this country. The Siberian is charged with the Stateizer, the meetings will be held closed.
In June, the press service of the Central District Court of Omsk reported on the arrest of a former employee of the enterprise of the defense industry, who “collected information about important military facilities” for the “representative of Germany” in exchange for help in the receipt of German citizenship. The FSB distributed a video detention video. On it, the security forces are felled by Omsk at the entrance, put on it handcuffs and take a crust out of his bag, in which 300 euros lay.
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The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent a pensioner to the pre -trial detention center on suspicion of attempted attempted “confidential cooperation with a foreign state” (part 3 of article 30, article 275.1 of the Criminal Code). The name of the man is not revealed . It is known that he was born in Dagestan and that he is 67 years old.
According to the investigation, the pensioner himself “turned to the State Unitary Enterprise of the Ministry of State of Ukraine” and “reported his intentions to give the Ukrainian side information and perform specific actions that may contribute to the military defeat of the Russian Federation.” The FSB officers allegedly learned about this, who began to follow the “all meetings and correspondence” of a man. At the meeting, as the pensioner was stopped, he refused to speak out.
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The Second Western District Military Court sentenced Maxim Asriyan to the eight years of the St. Petersburg Medical Medical Brown in the case of the failed arson of the military enlistment office.
Asriyan was found guilty of attempts on a terrorist attack and Stateismman (part 3 of article 30 and part 1 of article 205 and part 1 of article 275 of the Criminal Code). For the first 2.5 years, he will serve his sentence in prison. The prosecutor requested 14 years in prison for a Petersburger.
It became known about the initiation of the case of the Stateizer at the end of December. The essence of the accusations is unknown. As Sotavision ** notes, the case was considered in one day. The meeting was held closed.
The 26-year-old Asrian, who worked as a nurse in the clinic, was detained in October 2022-he was stopped at Pulkovo Airport when he flew out of St. Petersburg to Sochi. According to investigators, a few days before he came to the Frunze military registration and enlistment office with Roszhig, but then changed his mind to set fire to the commissariat and left.
The case of the teacher Tushkanov
Teachers of history from Komi Nikita Tushkinov, convicted of comments on the explosion on the Crimean bridge, was sent to the penalty area of the IK-20 of the Vologda Oblast for the second time in a row. According to his loved ones, he was appointed seven days of a schizo. The reason for the recovery is unknown.
“Nikita was allowed to call loved ones, he said that he was feeling fine, but tired of the same days and tasteless Balanda. He receives few letters, we assume that this is also the pressure of the administration, ”said Tushkin’s friends.
Earlier, on December 12, he was already sent to a schizo for seven days for the fact that he was “in a sleeping place” before the announcement of the end of the end. Close teachers suggested that constant penalties are made in order to transfer it to strict conditions of detention.
The second case against "foreign Agent"
Against the former coordinator of the Pskov branch of the Voice movement **, Vladimir Zhilinsky **, a criminal case was opened on a violation of the procedure for the “foreign agent” (part 2 of article 330.1 of the Criminal Code), the human rights project “Network Freedom” reports .
The activist faces a fine of up to 300 thousand rubles or imprisonment for up to two years. Now Zhilinsky is abroad.
According to the law, after two court decisions under an administrative article on violation of the procedure for the “foreign agent” (Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), the third protocol may result in a criminal case. The Pskov district court fined Zhilinsky five times under this article-twice in 2022 and three in 2023.
In February last year, the only similar business in the country was initiated in relation to the Tver activist Artyom Vyzhenkov, who left Russia, who participated in the movement of the observers “Voice”. In February, the court in Tver in absentia sent him under arrest, he was put on the wanted list.
"Keeped in shackles and did not go to the toilet"
The first Eastern District Military Court at the exit meeting in Irkutsk sentenced to 19 years of imprisonment Ruslan Zinin , who wounded the military commissar in Ust-Ilimsk after the agenda came to his brother, and a friend died in Ukraine.
Zinina was found guilty of the attack, illegal storage of weapons and its manufacture (paragraph “c” of part 2 of article 205 of the Criminal Code, part 1 of article 222 of the Criminal Code and part 1 of article 223 of the Criminal Code). He must spend the first 7 years of term by court order. The prosecutor's office demanded a punishment in the form of 20 years.
Earlier, the human rights project “The Solidarity Zone” published the testimony of Zinin. He talked about torture conditions in the first days after the detention on September 26. According to Siberian, he was allegedly held in the cell in shackles, fixing their arms and legs, which were not removed from him, and did not take him to the toilet:
“I was contained for two days [after the arrest] in a chamber in a shackle device, fastened hand and foot. He was forced to send natural needs, eat, sleep in shackles, buttoned his arms and legs. My requests to stop ... Employees ignored the device. It was removed immediately before the interrogation of the 28th.
I was exhausted, I just wanted it to stop, so that it was still unfastened, because it is impossible to endure. In this regard, the investigator entered the interrogation protocol on the basis of my two or three words literally, he himself formulated the answers, and did not write down from my words. The recorded does not correspond to what I said. Also, in connection with these two days, I was forced to sign the interrogation protocol in the form in which he was drawn up by the investigator, despite the fact that the recorded was not true.
Also, the lawyer [Sergey] Sizykh did not interfere in the interrogation, did not talk to me, did not provide me with advice, did not make comments. ”
The case of Strelkova-Girkin
During the debate in the Moscow City Court, the state prosecution requested the former "Minister of Defense of the DPR" Igor Strelkov (Girkin) for four years and 11 months of the colony of general regime in the case of calls for extremism on the Internet. The consideration of the case was held closed.
Strelkova was detained on July 21, 2023 and sent to a pre-trial detention center because of two posts in his telegram channel, in which the FSB found calls for extremism (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code). According to the lawyer, the publications spoke about the "Crimean problems" and "disgrace, if monetary allowance is not paid." Strelkov himself asked him to send him under house arrest due to the diagnosed angina pectoris of the second degree and the need to take drugs. The sentence is scheduled for January 25.