The Kiev prosecutor got nervous - the political repression machine malfunctioned
The recent decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, which declared unconstitutional the norm of the Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine, which did not allow for the possibility of posting bail for those suspected of political offenses, caused discontent among the Ukrainian punitive structures.
“Prosecutor of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea” Gunduz Mamedov writes about this in his article for the Kyiv weekly “Zerkalo Nedeli”.
“This norm - part 5 of Article 176 of the Code of Criminal Procedure - applies to a suspect of committing high treason and other grave and especially grave crimes against the foundations of the national security of Ukraine and crimes related to terrorist activities or the activities of illegal paramilitary or armed groups,” explains Mamedov.
According to him, immediately after this norm was declared unconstitutional, court decisions appeared that made it possible to release such suspects and accused from custody.
“The prosecutor's office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea is also faced with this new reality. On Thursday, one of the district courts of Kiev, in fact, made it possible to release from custody a person who, financed by the Russian side, prepared and posted on the Internet anti-Ukrainian materials that contained calls for changing the borders of the territory of Ukraine. Similar decisions may be made in the near future in three more criminal proceedings,” writes the “prosecutor.”
It is clarified that we are talking about the cameraman and director of the film studio named after. Dovzhenko, one of the founders of the TET TV channel Oleg Sagan, who was released after entering His bail is 80 thousand hryvnia.
In addition, similar decisions may be made regarding journalist Kirill Vyshinsky, ex-Minister of Health of Crimea Pyotr Mikhalchevsky and Crimean Self-Defense member Alexander Sattarov.
“For a better understanding of the situation after the decision of the Constitutional Court, which in itself does not raise doubts about its correctness, we can take Kirill Vyshinsky as an example. Having precedents, we all understand what his release from custody can lead to, who can pay bail for him - even for a cosmic amount - and help him flee abroad in order to further avoid responsibility. And this is a problem not only in the Vyshinsky case, it is a general issue of the effectiveness of criminal proceedings and ensuring the inevitability of punishment,” Mamedov fears.
Let us note that the so-called “prosecutor’s office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea” is a virtual structure created in Kiev that has no relation to Crimea, whose residents, following a referendum in 2014, decided to secede from Ukraine and reunite with Russia.
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