Before the court due to the creation of an extremist community In Moscow is currently being negotiated against a number of young people. Human rights activists criticize the processes. From Moscow Miodrac Soric.
Anna Pawlikowa in the courtroom
Anna Pawlikowas glance into a Void. The now 18-Year-old looks sad, sits behind a high glass wall at a courtroom in Moscow. In front of her, a flash thunderstorm on many cameras. You will be surrounded by Russian police officers, have you just brought out in handcuffs in the hall. Your lawyer is sitting at a table on the other side of the armored glass wall, leafing through files.
As a veterinary nurse working at the end of Anna Pawlikowa is accused of an extremist community under the name “New size” from the beginning. The article 282.1 of the Russian criminal code makes this a punishable crime. The penalty ranges from a fine of 200,000 roubles (equivalent of € 2,500) up to a maximum of eight years in prison.
Crowds at the trial of Anna Pawlikowa in Mokskau
As the Accused is alleged to have committed the Offence, she was 17 years old. That was about five months. Since then, Anna Pawlikowa is either in prison or their poor health in a prison hospital.
A provocateur on the glue gone?
Anna’s older sister, Anastasia Pawlikowa, considers the allegations to be absurd and especially for constructed. Deutsche Welle says that Anna had been a provocateur of the Russian secret service FSB on the glue. Your sister would have met up with other teenagers in a fast food restaurant on the pedestrian Arbat street in Moscow. Three men, who later turned out to be employees of the secret service, have joined to them. One of them (Ruslan D.) have always provided sharper, more far-reaching political claims, and even a political programme formulated. Ironically, his report, his records now serve the prosecution as evidence of the alleged Offence.
Of the ten people who met in the fast-food restaurant, according to media reports, four reports are now in jail, six under house arrest. What is the logic of this division is carried out, is unclear.
Observers assume that it has to do with the different judges could have, in which they were presented. Anna Pawlikowa had according to this theory, apparently, bad luck. You’ve got a particularly strict judge, says Lev Ponomaryov, head of the non-governmental organization (NGO) “human rights”. He supported the family Anna Pawlikowas. The 76-year-old human rights activist holds Anna’s innocent, he says of the German wave.
Attention, thanks to NGOs
The process is an example of the authorities ‘ arbitrariness. In his opinion, there are too many employees in Russia’s security services. The would not have enough to do. Snitch services, such as in the case of Anna Pawlikowas served, ultimately, its raison d’être, he says.
Human rights lawyer Lev Ponomarev is also the process appeared
Lev Ponomarev is one of the most prominent human rights activists in Russia. He has worked with the murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov the murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Around 20 employees of his organization. Lev Ponomarev calls for the immediate release of Anna Pawlikowas. A Petition on “Change.org” in the meantime, signed by 136,000 people.
Thanks to the commitment of Russian NGOs, more and more channels, Web sites and Newspapers report about the process. This Wednesday evening (15.08.2018) organize friends of Anna Pawlikowa a “March of mothers” on the Pushkin square in Moscow, not far ten minutes ‘ walk from the Kremlin. So far, said on Facebook of 1,200 people Coming. And, although the Russian authorities have not approved the Protest. At least not yet. But in the end, the biggest Kremlin can’t even imagine the critics that the security forces of demonstrators mothers drift apart with violence.
In the meantime, the hope is that public pressure on short-or long-forcing the authorities to relent and the accused are left free to grow. For Anna Pawlikowa the legal skewer is run tail first. The judges have adjourned their case.