"The country is pushed on" Oprichnik Day "

The trial of Oleg Orlov*is completed. The prosecutor requires a real term. The verdict is tomorrow

“I do not repent of anything and do not regret anything” - these words of the human rights activist Oleg Orlov ended the trial on his charges of re -discrediting the Russian army. During the judicial investigation, Orlov did not participate - he defiantly read Kafka. Only said the last word.

In the Golovinsky District Court in the debate, the prosecutor Vorobyov spoke in the debate today, who listed in her speech all those “evidence” that were defeated by the defense during the first process. Recall that the Golovinsky court of Orlov had already judged and sentenced to a fine, but then the prosecutor's office changed his mind. And instead of a fine, appointed at her request, demanded a real period of imprisonment. The Moscow City Court returned the case to the prosecutor. And now it went to the second circle. This is a procedural nonsense. Whatever the state prosecution nor the court prevented the court.

A third of those wishing to get into the meeting room. The first accompanied by the bailiffs solemnly introduced a witness to Mironenko, the executive director of the Veterans of Russia, who wrote an application for Orlov (for some reason Mironenko denied this).

The prosecutor of Vorobyov mentions the interrogations of Mironenko and his brothers-twin Bokhonko. Gemini - because the texts of their testimony coincided with word for word, to a comma, the difference - only in personal data. How it happened, the court did not ask.

It also mentions the examination of the work of Kryukova and Tarasov, the very one, with dozens of grammatical errors. And a new examination - Zueva.

She does not turn to only one document - the text of the article of Orlov. He was never considered in court, only the headline is quoted: "They wanted fascism, they received it." But the prosecutor claims that this article discredits the Russian army (it is even unknown what words and phrases from it form, according to the investigation, the composition of the crime).

“Orlov violates the rights of not only military personnel, but also as a whole of citizens of the Russian Federation,” said Vorobyov prosecutor. And he declares an aggravating circumstance - allegedly Orlov wrote an article out of hatred of military personnel. Yes, it is accused of Orlov, who personally saved the captured Russian soldiers in the Chechen captivity from the execution. But this is not even the point, but that the prosecutor does not argue this very hatred.

However, it was the motive for political hatred, which aggravates guilt, allowed Vorobyeva to demand for Orlov a real term in the colony: 2 years and 11 months.

The maximum possible period for this article is 3 years. Vorobyova’s month “forgave”, taking into account age and positive characteristics given to the accused. This is Jesuity: in the first process, Judge Kostryukova, passing the verdict, listed a whole list of mitigating circumstances, the main of which is many years of human rights work. According to the prosecutor Vorobyeva, all this is drawn only for 1 month of reducing the deadline.

“I insist that Oleg Petrovich Orlov is innocent, his criminal prosecution contradicts the Constitution of Russia, and the investigation and proceedings in court were held with gross violations of the law,” Tertukhin’s lawyer begins his speech.

She dwells in detail on all the non -Urazians of the investigation. On how Orlov was deprived of the second defender, how the investigation of the investigator Savchenko drove the investigation "We need to do everything quickly!" (She quotes). The fact that the repeated investigation was carried out in violation of the decision of the Plenum of the Supreme Court, which directly prohibits replenishing the gaps in the completed case after the court returned it - to conduct new examinations, for example. But this is what was done. But it was still done mediocre: a new linguistic examination was instructed to a specialist who worked not with the text for 18 years, but with sound, she is a professional in the field of identification of persons according to the phonograms of speech. And she took up linguistics only six months ago and does not have certification for the right to independently produce examinations of speech activities. It is not surprising that the expert in its conclusion went beyond the scope of special knowledge, using legal and sociological terms.

By the way, this expert by the name of Zueva could not find words about the army in the text of Orlov. But this is her army, he allegedly discredited.

Zuev saw the only connection of the article with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation ... in the mention of Vladimir Putin. And since he is the commander in chief, his criticism is supposedly attributed to an integer social group. I must say, such a conclusion opens an excessively wide field for the creativity of law enforcement officers.

In general, the judge of the Moscow City Court Kupriyanova returned the case to the prosecutor to establish the motive - Savchenko managed to send the case to court even without him. But the motive remained unclear. No, Savchenko, of course, entered the political hatred into this empty column, which Orlov allegedly nourishes to the army and “moral values”. But he did not prove this in any word. Therefore, in court, the motive remained untouched.

Katerina Tertukhina lists:

"Article Orlov:

• should have been directly investigated in the judicial investigation;

• The concept of discrediting should have been clarified;

• It should be indicated which information published in the article is characterized as “related to genocide, the murder of people, the destruction of infrastructure, and the economy of cultural objects; criminal, directed against the existing system or violating the existing law and order ”;

• In what specific words there is a substantiation of “negative assessment of the actions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the denial of the facts of using the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in order to maintain peace and security”.

All this was not done.

The defender speaks of the unconstitutionality of the article on “discrediting” - 280.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. She violates not only freedom of speech:

“The persecution of Orlov for“ discrediting ”also contradicts the principle of equal rights and freedoms of man and citizen, regardless of the beliefs flowing from Article 19 of the Constitution. However, citizens of Russia, it turns out, is not at all equal? Orlov’s recognition will be guilty that only those who support such actions can freely express their opinion on the actions of the state. And any criticism of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation or decisions of other state bodies are prohibited. The persecution of critical statements about the state indicates the establishment of a mandatory and only “correct” ideology in the country. ”

Tertukhina tells how many times Orlov risked himself for the sake of evacuating the Russian -speaking population from the warring Chechnya, how he changed himself on hostages in Budennovsk, how helessly documented violations of the rights of civilians during a variety of military conflicts.

“He was brought up and raised in rejection of violence and war. Oleg Petrovich opposed all wars, starting from Afghanistan. He saw Chechnya and many armed conflicts with his own eyes. Since 2014, while it was possible, he also worked in the zone of armed conflict in eastern Ukraine. And always the most important in his life was, there is and remains the protection of human rights and freedoms. ”

According to the prosecution, Orlov "created a real threat to the formation of a false opinion in a society about the actions of the armed forces." “But can an opinion be false? Only facts can be false! " - exclaims the lawyer.

And demands Orlov to justify.

“On the day when this process began, the world was shocked by the news about the death of Alexei Navalny,” Orlov’s only speech begins his only speech in this trial. - I thought to refuse the last word - to the words now? But then he thought: after all, all these are the links of one chain - death, or rather, the murder of Alexei, judicial reprisals against other critics of the regime, including above me, strangling freedom in the country, Russian troops in Ukraine. And I decided to say. "

Orlov did not speak long, capacious and accurately. That he did not commit crimes. And what is judged by the fact that even in the disposition of this anti -constitutional article 280.3 does not fit. For criticism of the regime. The fact that what happened in just 4 months from the date of end of the first process convinces him of his own rightness: the state becomes comprehensive, claims to control even the personal, private life of citizens.

“What to call the political system in which all this happens? Unfortunately, in my article I was right. There is no free science, art, private life. The arbitrariness is masked for compliance with pseudo -law procedures. Gorinov, Skochilenko, Baryshnikov, Kara-Murza* and others are slowly killed. The authorities are fighting even with the dead of the bulk.

The hero of Kafka did not find out what he was accused of. We were formally announced by the accusation, but it is impossible to understand it, ”says Orlov.

He is the accused. But he accuses. The fact that the country is pushed into anti -utopia, to the Sorokinsky "Oprichnik Day", in the fact that those who control the rink of repression have no image of the future.

“Their children and grandchildren will be ashamed of stories about where their dads and mothers served. This is the most terrible and inevitable punishment. ”

After that, Judge Astakhova announces a break. She will announce the verdict on February 27 at 12 o’clock.

* The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation considers “foreign agents”.