85-year-old from Kharkov Mehdi Logunov, sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of treason (Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), He addressed from prison, where no alternative is in August 2017 of the year, an open letter to the Ukrainian and international public.
In his address, the 85-year-old scientist prisoner focused on the fact, that in the prisons of Ukraine with regard to political prisoners, torture is practiced, and asked to send to the Council of Europe, PACE, OSCE, ECHR and HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH appeal for the establishment of the European Council of an international tribunal to investigate crimes, committed by Ukrainian law enforcement and law enforcement authorities.
«…Here, I learned in prison, any flour, savage beatings, torture, torture had to endure many young political prisoners, and not too political, people, that age suit me in grandchildren. And only a few of them over the age of my sons. And among them there are women ... I, Logunov Mehta Feofanovych, 21 May 1934 G. R., political prisoner Ukraine, 85 years of age, appeal to you – wives, mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters of political prisoners in Ukraine – Kharkov, Odessa, Donbass and other towns and villages. I appeal to you, My children and grandchildren! I ask you to send to the Council of Europe, PACE, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, OSCE, appeal to the ECHR, the request for the establishment in Europe, at the Council of an international tribunal for crimes in Europe, perfect punitive organs of Ukraine: SBU, Prosecutor's Office, courts, police, MIA: beatings, tortures, torture and other t. n. legal proceedings, which were exposed and your husbands and sons in detention, arrest, inquiry, investigation», – He writes political prisoner.
Recall, 85-year-old Mehdi Logunov 30 July last year, was sentenced to Ordzhonikidzevskiy District Court of Kharkiv 12 years in prison for "collecting classified information about defense orders Ukraine to Russia". The defense did not agree with such a cruel sentence on apparently fabricated criminal charges. According to the lawyer Maxim Shapovalov, of 15 Prosecutor's witnesses pointed to the only one of his client, while the defense is confident, that he can be an agent provocateur of the SBU.
appeal hearing was postponed twice. So, 18 December 2018 The meeting of the Kharkiv Court of Appeal to review the case of Mehdi Logunov did not take place on a rather strange reason: the court had not prepared a room for appeal. advocates political prisoner faced a similar situation and 11 April this year: for unknown reasons, the formal court decided to postpone the meeting for half a year actually. Another attempt to appeal in the case is scheduled for Mehdi Logunov 3 September 2019 of the year.
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