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KHRAMOV: "DMITRIYEVSKY'S CASE IS THE FIRST AND SIGNIFICANT STRAIGHTFORWARD CRIMINAL COURT PERSECUTION FOR SPREADING INFORMATION AND OPINIONS ABOUT THE CHECHEN WAR. I AM APPEALING TO NEMTZOV, YAVLINSKY, BELYKH, KASPAROV, RYZHKOV, KASYANOV, KHAKAMADA"
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Statement by Nikolay Khramov, General Secretary for the Russian Radicals movement, member of General Counsel for Transnational Radical Party
Moscow, Jan 10, 2006
The case of Stanislav Dmitriyevsky, the chief executive for the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society and the editor in chief for the Nizhni Novgorod newspaper "Pravo-zaschita" ("Human Rights Activism"), is the first and significant case of straightforward and flat-out criminal court persecution of a Russian citizen for spreading information and opinions about the chechen war. The prosecutor's office, speaking for the Russian Federation, accuses him of "stirring up ethnic, racial or religious divisions with malversation" (art. 282 part 2 item "b" of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), citing the paper's publications of the appeals by the Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov and his London representative Akhmed Zakayev to stop the war and for the West to press on Russia to make it come to peace in Chechnya. The both appeals were largely republished by Western and other media including our Web sites www.radicalparty.org and www.radikaly.ru. If convicted, Dmitriyevsky will face 3 to 5 years of imprisonment.
The criminal case against Stanislav Dmitriyevsky was prosecuted a year ago, in January 2005, the charges were exhibited in September, the court trial procedes for almost 2 months now - since the 16 of November. Still none of Russia's political parties including Yabloko and SPS, no party leader or a member of Gosduma have found a single word to say, not a word to support the indictee, not even to challenge the wisdom of the criminal case!
In a week time, on the 18 of January the Nizhni Novgorod Sovetsky district court will proceed with the Dmitriyevsky's case. It will be the arguments of the sides; the prosecutor's office will say what penalty is deserved by publishng the appeals to peace from Maskhadov and Zakayev (meaning actually penalty for systematically spreading the uncensored information on the violation of human rights in Chechnya).
I plan to attend that session to express, on behalf of Russian Radicals and Transnational Radical Party, our solidarity and support for Stanislav Dmitriyevsky.
Now I am appealing to someone else, specifically to Boris Nemtzov (not a stranger in Nizhni Novgorod), to Grigory Yavlinsky, to Nikita Belykh, to Garry Kasparov, to Vladimir Ryzhkov, to Mikhail Kasyanov, to Irina Khakamada. It is not just a small newspaper editor that comes to trial in Nizhni Novgorod. It is the unsilent Russia that is being tried. The Russia that is fighting against the criminal, dirty colonial war. The only Russia that you may hope to lean to, the one that voted for you and may do it once more.
So please cut short your silence that grows equivocal! If you can not spare a day to come to town to attend the session on the 18 of January (and trust me, your appearance in courtroom is waited by only too many!) I am sure you can find some other effective way to exercise your civil and political courage in respect to "Dmitriyevsky's case".
To join the action in support of Stanislav Dmitriyevsky, visit the Web site of the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situation: http://www.cjes.ru/actions/action.php?p_id=1&l=en
For further information:
tel. +7-495- 589-8179, +7-916-675-6379
www.radikaly.ru
Moscow, Jan 10, 2006
The case of Stanislav Dmitriyevsky, the chief executive for the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society and the editor in chief for the Nizhni Novgorod newspaper "Pravo-zaschita" ("Human Rights Activism"), is the first and significant case of straightforward and flat-out criminal court persecution of a Russian citizen for spreading information and opinions about the chechen war. The prosecutor's office, speaking for the Russian Federation, accuses him of "stirring up ethnic, racial or religious divisions with malversation" (art. 282 part 2 item "b" of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), citing the paper's publications of the appeals by the Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov and his London representative Akhmed Zakayev to stop the war and for the West to press on Russia to make it come to peace in Chechnya. The both appeals were largely republished by Western and other media including our Web sites www.radicalparty.org and www.radikaly.ru. If convicted, Dmitriyevsky will face 3 to 5 years of imprisonment.
The criminal case against Stanislav Dmitriyevsky was prosecuted a year ago, in January 2005, the charges were exhibited in September, the court trial procedes for almost 2 months now - since the 16 of November. Still none of Russia's political parties including Yabloko and SPS, no party leader or a member of Gosduma have found a single word to say, not a word to support the indictee, not even to challenge the wisdom of the criminal case!
In a week time, on the 18 of January the Nizhni Novgorod Sovetsky district court will proceed with the Dmitriyevsky's case. It will be the arguments of the sides; the prosecutor's office will say what penalty is deserved by publishng the appeals to peace from Maskhadov and Zakayev (meaning actually penalty for systematically spreading the uncensored information on the violation of human rights in Chechnya).
I plan to attend that session to express, on behalf of Russian Radicals and Transnational Radical Party, our solidarity and support for Stanislav Dmitriyevsky.
Now I am appealing to someone else, specifically to Boris Nemtzov (not a stranger in Nizhni Novgorod), to Grigory Yavlinsky, to Nikita Belykh, to Garry Kasparov, to Vladimir Ryzhkov, to Mikhail Kasyanov, to Irina Khakamada. It is not just a small newspaper editor that comes to trial in Nizhni Novgorod. It is the unsilent Russia that is being tried. The Russia that is fighting against the criminal, dirty colonial war. The only Russia that you may hope to lean to, the one that voted for you and may do it once more.
So please cut short your silence that grows equivocal! If you can not spare a day to come to town to attend the session on the 18 of January (and trust me, your appearance in courtroom is waited by only too many!) I am sure you can find some other effective way to exercise your civil and political courage in respect to "Dmitriyevsky's case".
To join the action in support of Stanislav Dmitriyevsky, visit the Web site of the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situation: http://www.cjes.ru/actions/action.php?p_id=1&l=en
For further information:
tel. +7-495- 589-8179, +7-916-675-6379
www.radikaly.ru
