Der Anarchistin Alexandra Dukhanina droht eine Haftstrafe von sechs Jahren. Sie ist angeklagt sich bei den Auseinandersetzungen mit der russischen Polizei am 6. Mai 2012 auf dem Bolotnaya Square beteiligt zu haben. Hier ihr Schlußwort: "Es waren offensichtliche Lügen und brutale Gewalt“ vom 5.2.1014 in dem Moskauer Prozess. Die Urteilsverkündung ist am 21. Februar 2014.
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Alexandra Dukhanina: "There were only blatant lies and brute force"
Final court statement of anarchist
Alexandra Dukhanina (Naumova), charged with violence against police
during an opposition rally in Moscow's Bolotnaya Square on May 6,
2012, made in a Moscow court on February 5, 2014.
At
first I thought that this entire case is some sort of mad mistake and
nonsense. But now, after listening to the speeches by prosecutors and
after finding out what are the imprisonment terms that they demanded
for all of us, I realized that they take revenge on all of us. They
take revenge because we've been there and we saw how it was all
really happening. Who provoked the crushing, how the people were
being beaten, the unjustified cruelty. They take revenge on us
because we did not cave in to them and did not admit our non-existent
guilt. Neither during investigation nor during the trial. They also
take revenge because I did not help them with their lies and refused
to answer their questions.
It must be some weighty thing that I'm
guilty of, and it deserves to be punished with six years in a penal
colony. There weren't any other ones worthy of such punishment, just
we are left: they are afraid of real criminals, the strangers who
stood in their way were imprisoned, and they aren't touching any of
their own. It is up to you, your honour, to decide how to help them
become more happy at the expense of our fates, how they can get new
appointments, ranks and awards.
But, after all, why six years?
What are the "at least eight aimed throws" that I made?
Where did they come from? Who was I aiming at and whom did I hit? At
eight different police officers? Or eight times at the two police
officers that I was charged with attacking? If so, how many times,
and which of them? Where are the answers to all these questions?
After all, they should first give detailed descriptions and proof,
and only then imprison - after all, it's six years of life, it's no
laughing matter. But now it doesn't even look like a lie, it's lying
demagoguery without facts, and playing with people's lives. What if
they had 188 videos, not eight, would they have then said that I made
188 throws?
There are two OMON riot police officers whom I
subjected to violence, you'd seen them. They are twice of thrice as
big as I am, and they also wore body armour. One of them did not feel
anything at all, the other one was not harmed by me and made no claim
against me. Is that the mass rioting and violence that I'm supposed
to be imprisoned for for six years?
Oh, I forgot about the kvass -
the bottle alone is worth five years, and eight targeted throws may
account for the remaining year. Now they should tell me that, at
least I will know the price of kvass. And can they also tell me,
where do my mass disorders start and end and where does violence
against officers start? And what is the difference between these two
things? I somehow did not understand: what arson? Attacks?
Destruction of property? And where am I in all of that? What was I
breaking? What did I set on fire? What did I destroy? With whom did I
set up a conspiracy? What proves any of that? In short, do I get four
years under Article 212 [of the Criminal Code of the Russian
Federation, dealing with mass rioting] simply for being there? So, my
presence at an originally peaceful rally is my mass rioting that I
took part in? There's nothing else apart from that!
Look at these
people. They are not murderers, thieves or fraudsters. Imprisoning us
all would be not just unfair, it would be mean.
Many people have
suggested that I confess, apologize, say what the investigators
wanted to hear, but you know, I don't find it necessary to apologize
to these people. It is a custom in this country that [law-enforcement
officers] are absolutely untouchable, although there are many
reported cases of them running protection rackets for drug dealers,
prostitution, rape. Recently there was a case like that in Lipetsk
Region.
The contents of the charges made against all of us are not
just ridiculous, it is absurd and is only based on OMON riot police
officers' statements. So what do we have here, if a person has
epaulets, he is a priori honest and holy?
Your honour, in the
eight months of this trial you have received from defence enough
proof of all of us being innocent, so if you sent us to a [prison]
camp, you will cripple lives and fates for nothing!
Do the
authorities want so badly to show how we are being punished that they
are ready for such a thing? To give a suspended sentence to an
official, a rapist or a police officer for [indiscernible] is normal:
they are the untouchable, they are one of your own. But we can
languish in prison - after all, who are we, we aren't even rich. But
for some reason I am sure that even in prison I will be more free
than many of them, because I have clear conscience, and those who
will stay free, continuing with their so-called defence of order and
freedom, will live in an eternal cage with theiraccomplices.
I can
admit my mistakes, and if by truth and facts I could be told and
persuaded that I did something illegal, I would have admitted that.
But no-one has ever explained anything: there were only blatant lies
and brute force. By force they can strangle, carry...
[indiscernible], and it was all done to me. But by force or lies you
cannot prove anything. And no-one proved any of my guilt. I am
certain that I am right and innocent.
I would like to finish with
a quote from "Tale of Cipollino" by Gianni Rodari:
"-
My poor father! You have been banged up like a criminal, with thieves
and bandits.
- What are you talking about, son, - his father
interrupted him. - There are lots of honest people in prison!
-
But why are they locked up? What were the bad things that they did?
-
Exactly nothing, son. That's why they've been locked up. Prince Lemon
does not like decent people.
- So, to be in prison is big honour?
- he asked.
- So it turns out. Prisons were built for those who
steal and kill, but under Prince Lemon's rule everything is the other
way around, thieves and murderers are in his palace, and honest
people are in prison."
From:
http://grani.ru/tags/may6/m.224210.html#child-224195
More on Alexandra Dukhanina:
http://wiki.avtonom.org/en/index.php/Alexandra_Dukhanina
Alexandra Dukhanina - an anarchist, a social activist, defender of Tsagovsky forest and a participant of "Occupy Abai" was arrested 27th of May 2012. She is accused with statute 212 part 2 of criminal codex of Russian federation (to rioting) and 318 part 1 (violent against government official) in relation to events in Bolotnaya square 6th of May. 29th of May judge Natalya Dudar of Basmanniy Court of Moscow released her to home arrest. Lawyer Dmitry Efremov says that Alexandra denies having committed violent acts, and in video footage to which accusations are based, it is not clear what is thrown by Alexandra and against whom. Current charges may result a prison sentence from 3 to 8 years.
