France, Alternative Libertaire AL (September) -
Koltchenko-Sentsov: Russian tyrannical regime laid bare (fr, it,
pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Alexandr Koltchenko and Oleg Sentsov, Ukrainian opponents of the dictatorship of Russian
power in the Crimea, were sentenced after a rigged trial that Russian authorities wanted
to copy. Faced with false accusations, they have nothing and are now sold symbol of a plan
to kill. ---- Late July was opened in Rostov-on-Don (Russia) the trial of the anarchist
activist and filmmaker Alexandr Koltchenko Oleg Sentsov. Both have been detained since May
16, 2014 by the Russian authorities who blame their violence and planning attacks against
monuments and pharmacies of Russian power in Crimea on behalf of the Ukrainian fascist
movement Pravy sektor (right sector). ---- These delirious accusations against activists
known for their anti-fascist and progressive commitment as well directed against the
Ukrainian extreme right shows that Russian rudeness and lack of imagination of a
dictatorship which, if not better, is inspired Stalinist trials.
Since May 16, they are trapped under the control of the FSB, the Russian secret services,
except their lawyers, no one can match with them or meet them. In addition, Oleg Sentsov,
as he even said it before and during this judicial masquerade was tortured by FSB officers
to make him confess that he was the conductor of the "plot" against the Russian authorities.
Not only Sentsov and confessed Koltchenko have nothing but throughout their trial they
opposed their accusers smiling broadly, that of freedom of thought insolently defying dark
force of a tyrannical power. It is a way to explain to all those who follow what is
happening in Russia and Ukraine that whatever the decision, such a regime will eventually
fall under the assault of those it oppresses .
Penal Colony
The verdict was no surprise. He intervened on August 25 and has largely followed
requisitions judges running dirty work of executive power to which it is closely related
and which dictates the sentences to pronounce on political trial. Oleg Sentsov was
sentenced to twenty years in penal colony and Alexandr Koltchenko to ten years of the same
plan. During the various hearings, Sentsov, Koltchenko and their lawyers were very
combative. Unlike two co-accused (Gennady and Alexey Afanasyev Tchirny) who have chosen to
work with the Russian state to obtain a more lenient sentence (they were sentenced to
seven years in penal colony several months ago), they don ' nothing dropped and adopted a
break position.
So the judges were unable to answer several questions of the lawyers on the physical
evidence of the charge. New hearings have survived thanks to the mobilization of activists
defending human rights (notably Amnesty International) and anarchist movements,
anti-fascist and defense of Ukrainian and Russian political prisoners in Russia.
Silence of the international press
During these weeks of hearings, the international press was distinguished by his silence
that is matched only by his kindness with the Putin system, business oblige, but also
because it prefers to support dissidents and opponents as presentable supporters of
capitalist Boris Sentsov (assassinated in February) or the nationalist and racist Alexey
Navalny shockingly presented by her as a Democrat. The international militant mobilization
in recent months for the release of Alexandr Koltchenko and Oleg Sentsov must now
intensify and expand that of progressive political prisoners in Russia.
Laurent Esquerre (AL Paris-Northeast)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Koltchenko-Sentsov-Le-regime
