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The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow sentenced Pussy Riot participant Maria Alekhina, accused of a “sanitary case”, to a year of restriction of freedom. About it informs Mediazona citing lawyer Daniil Berman.
The prosecutor requested two years of restriction of liberty.
The activist, like the rest of the defendants in the “sanitary case”, was found guilty of inciting violation of sanitary and epidemiological rules that created a threat of a massive COVID disease (part 1 of article 236 of the Criminal Code). She has been under house arrest since January. Alekhine does not admit her guilt.
Speaking at the trial with the last word, Alekhina urged to forget the phrase “nothing depends on me”.
“The sanitary case is my second criminal case in my life. Almost 10 years have passed. The criminal offense for politics has ceased to be shock content, but has become part of the morning news. Then there was a scandal: three girls in a cage for a song against Putin. Now these three girls are every resident of Russia. Then the courts were open, now we are sentenced behind closed doors. The state has fenced off with a wall in order to continue this performance, which is ashamed to show to the audience.
Why do you need to close the courts? Then, that just repression is not enough, it is not enough to plant, it is necessary to plant in such a way that no one talks about it. The creepiest things are the things that happen in silence. My first sentence is a message: “don’t you dare touch the state ideology”, my second sentence is “don’t you dare to discuss what we are doing at all”. The uncertainty of those who make these accusations is based on the fact that they are not being made on behalf of the people. People are not as stupid as it might seem from the heights of posts and shoulder straps. People understand who is persecuting and who is the persecutor. Who stands for ideals, and who just fulfills the length of service, so people just need to be deprived of the opportunity to see. Walls are built by the one who is afraid, the one who is doubly afraid forbids discussing it.
We are all taught to be afraid. Do you see the cage? If you misbehave, you end up in it. But a cage made of fear is worse than a cage made of glass and iron. I know this because I was in the last one.
I am not afraid, I know that I am innocent. But I do not know what is the big restriction of freedom – an electronic bracelet or Putin’s decree on the appointment to the post of judge. You will handle as many political affairs as they tell you, you will write papers, calling them decisions, knowing that nothing was decided in them – and all this in order to preserve the chair in which you sit. You said that slavery was abolished more than a century ago, but then who are you?
You follow the camp formula “die you today and I will die tomorrow.” I’d better act unfairly now, but stay in office, let the other suffer. Better different than me. You tell us: “Nothing depends on us,” although everything depends on you, as well as on us.
In my first case, there were discussions about whether political speech is a crime or not. There are no discussions right now. Everyone knows that everyone can be put in prison. Nobody knows how to stop it. In fact, you just need to forget the phrase “nothing depends on me” and take responsibility. In principle, this is freedom, if, of course, someone needs it here.
It is up to everyone to decide whether to stay in the camp and live according to the camp principles or leave it. I made my choice. Now you”.
The so-called “sanitary case” was initiated after a protest in support of Navalny on January 23. According to the investigation, the oppositionist’s comrades-in-arms and activists called on people on social networks to participate in a rally on Pushkin Square in Moscow, thus creating a threat of coronavirus infection.
In total, 11 people were involved in the “sanitary case”, among them: Alexey Navalny’s brother Oleg, FBK lawyer Lyubov Sobol, Navalny’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh, head of the “Alliance of Doctors” Anastasia Vasilyeva. The courts passed sentences to seven oppositionists, mostly they received from one to one and a half years of restriction of freedom.
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