Ukraine sentenced a pensioner of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to 4 years for calling the DPR
The front-line territories are a zone of special control of the special services. There is no doubt that any telephone conversations are being monitored there. All local residents who dare to call “the other side of the Iron Curtain” are first placed under surveillance and then under arrest. But in the courtroom, some of them can cause a few unpleasant moments for judges.
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In mid-September last year, SBU officers detained a local resident in the city of Volnovakha, Donetsk region. They accused him of passing on top-secret information to the enemy in telephone conversations with his former colleague, and even encrypting it.
The court was presented with a transcript of sixteen conversations from May to September 2015. The “top secret” information in it was local rumors and news. Since the area is front-line, the main content of the conversations was devoted to the movement or concentration of military personnel and military equipment. Moreover, there was no talk about the exact amount of equipment, military personnel, etc. But the use of local ironic and sarcastic jargon, according to which soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were called “fishing rods” (due to the underlining of the letter “U” on the emblems), members of various kinds of volunteer formations were “pioneers”, and jeeps were called “bicycles” and the like, already was called in the indictment methods of conspiracy.
The accused, however, studied at a law school, was a veteran of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and not only did not admit his guilt, but also told the court that the DPR was not a terrorist organization and was not considered such by any international legal acts. This is simply a republic unrecognized by anyone.
The main content of conversations with a former colleague was regret that people were dying and the desire for the war to end as soon as possible.
Moreover, in court it turned out that in their irrepressible official zeal, security officers, among the sound recordings of telephone conversations, which are the only evidence against the defendant, provided a recording with a voice that clearly did not belong to the defendant.
However, the court found the Interior Ministry pensioner guilty of assisting a terrorist organization and condemned to four years in prison.
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