Name: Anonymous 2019-06-27 8:07
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All of this would be comical were there any realistic chance that the court in Rostov would refuse to allow serious charges to be backed merely by irrelevant documents and an array of ‘secret witnesses’ who parrot the indictment, while being unable to answer the simplest of counter-questions from the defence.
These are widely acknowledged to be conveyor belt prosecutions in which one man, in this case, Mamutov, is designated the more serious charge of ‘organizing a Hizb ut-Tahrir’ group (under Article 205.5 § 1 of Russia’s criminal code), which could carry a life sentence, while the others are accused merely of involvement in that group (under Article 205.5 § 2 – from 10 to 20 years’ imprisonment).
All of this would be comical were there any realistic chance that the court in Rostov would refuse to allow serious charges to be backed merely by irrelevant documents and an array of ‘secret witnesses’ who parrot the indictment, while being unable to answer the simplest of counter-questions from the defence.
These are widely acknowledged to be conveyor belt prosecutions in which one man, in this case, Mamutov, is designated the more serious charge of ‘organizing a Hizb ut-Tahrir’ group (under Article 205.5 § 1 of Russia’s criminal code), which could carry a life sentence, while the others are accused merely of involvement in that group (under Article 205.5 § 2 – from 10 to 20 years’ imprisonment).