Over two phone calls in the LC – four years in prison in Ukraine
Date of publication: 09 October 2016 11:18 am
The reasons why people choose one side or another in civil conflict, the most various, and not always understood on a rational level. The verdict in the court case in which the pensioner of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine was accused of collaboration with the LC, reveals some of these motives.
The man notes that in addition that he was under stress from the constant shelling, and was a direct witness of how after the battalion “Donbass” of the city of Artemivsk, militants have engaged in looting in the village of Lugansk were taken from civilians mopeds, cars, moved BMP “Zhiguli”, seen as drunken rebels looted the store. In addition, saw APU shot at the villages, broken homes, civilians.
All this prompted a pensioner to share their experiences and thoughts with his former colleague, and for ten days he in a telephone conversation expressed their outrage, and discussing the nature, types, disposition and number of troops and weapons. He talked with his friends for two days, fifteenth and sixteenth of February. And already the twenty-second, at the time of the phone conversation, the yard of his house stormed by men in camouflage uniforms and three days before the twenty-fifth of February, when he was admitted to the detention facility, stole it.
The court did not pay any attention to the fact that the only evidence in the case was research protocols illegally obtained recordings of telephone conversations or the fact of illegal detention for three days, during which the suspect provided and moral and physical pressure by manipulating the threats to life, health and freedom of his wife and disabled daughter. And, besides, it was not proven that by his actions the suspect has done some damage.
All these violations of the law, the court justifies the fact that the country is undergoing anti-terrorist operation, and its forms and methods can be classified. To the measures of secrecy, the court considers the absence to resolution of the investigative judge to conduct wiretapping and the like. It turns out that the powers of the members of the security services above the rule of law.
The suspect, though he acknowledged the fact and content of the conversations, but added that in no way proved that he communicated with intelligence LC, according to the prosecution. Moreover, the recognition of the LC as a terrorist organization is also in doubt, since no one in the world that it does not consider, and the court used only the appeal of Ukraine to the international community recognition of the residents of Donbass “terrorists”. Thus, the suspect asked the court to acquit the defendant.
Judges, based on their inner conviction, sentenced the former militiaman to four years of imprisonment. It should be noted that such decisions are not only on the conscience of judges, but does not contribute to the return of peace to East Ukraine.
