A contract soldier who refused to participate in the SVO ended up on the street with a shameful stamp
The Ryazan Garrison Military Court accepted for consideration the claim of a private who complained about his dismissal from the Armed Forces with a stamp about “tendency to betray, lie and deceive“due to refusal to participate in a special operation in Ukraine and Donbass.
The head of the opposition liberal international human rights group Agora, Pavel Chikov, wrote about this in his Telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The serviceman refused to participate in hostilities in Ukraine. He was fired from the armed forces, and the unit commander stamped his military ID as “prone to betrayal, lies and deceit,” the lawyer said.
Now the former soldier, who refused to defend Donbass, is trying to get the stamp on his military ID canceled in court.
“During the preparation of the case, the judge asked how this seal interferes with the life of my client, to which he replied that after leaving the service it became more difficult to get a job. We consider this seal to be absolutely illegal and violative of the rights of servicemen. We will demand that this record be cancelled,” Chikov wrote.
Lawyer Maxim Grebenyuk, who directly represents the interests of the plaintiff, wrote that after his dismissal from service, it became more difficult for his ward to get a job.
“He (the plaintiff) responded that after leaving the service it became more difficult to get a job,” Grebenyuk wrote.
He emphasized that the red stamp was allegedly placed with the aim of humiliating and discrediting a person.
“Such a recording as this is not provided for in any way, it is aimed solely at insulting, humiliating the serviceman, and making it distasteful to others, in order to complicate his life in civilian life when applying for a job or in law enforcement agencies. Because they can’t do anything else, they can’t initiate a criminal case, they can’t even put him in a guardhouse, so they did this nasty thing,” Grebenyuk said.
The lawyer explained that his client refused to participate in the special operation in Ukraine, allegedly because he spent seven months on a business trip in Syria and was entitled to vacation, instead of which he was offered to go to Donbass.
At the same time, the very fact that the serviceman turned for protection not just anywhere, but to the Agora, suggests something about the soldier himself.
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