Igor Movenko
Igor Movenko, born 1977, Occupied territory of Sevastopol. Charges: Article 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Public calls for extremism (using mass media or the internet)); “The Igor Movenko case”. Sentence (June 25, 2018): two years of suspended sentence. Status: at large.
In brief
Occupied territory of Sevastopol · Sevastopol · Artists · Extremism cases
Sentence
2 years
two years of suspended sentence
First instance, May 3, 2018: 2 years
Charges
- Article 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Public calls for extremism (using mass media or the internet)
Full wording of the charges
left several comments in the "Krim - Ukraine" group on the 'VKontakte' social network, in which he called for extremist activities
Latest event
July 4, 2019 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list
Timeline
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Persecution ends
· Appeal ruling
sentence changed · 2 years
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
The Igor Movenko case
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol
Criminal case
The Igor Movenko case
Details and sources
Full summary
A resident of Sevastopol, in December 2016 he was detained by FSB officers and his flat was searched. The detention was accompanied by beatings and threats, Movenko was not allowed to call a lawyer. He was charged with public calls to extremism.
At one of court sessions Movenko said that he was forced by torture to confirm the authorship of comments on "VKontakte" social network. Movenko's wife believes that the prosecution was a revenge for the attempt to prosecute the law enforcers who had attacked her husband earlier.
The main evidence in this case was the expertise conducted by the FSB. During the court hearing it turned out that the person who conducted the linguistic expertise of Movenko's statements did not have a higher linguistic education. The court ignored the independent expertise.
On 5 May 2018, Movenko was sentenced to two years in a penal colony, despite the fact that the prosecution requested only a suspended sentence. According to the court decision, after being released, Movenko was deprived of 'the right to carry out activities related to access to information and communication networks' for six months.
On 26 June, the appellate court replaced Movenko's real term with a suspended one, but the activist was not brought to the trial. On 28 June, Movenko was released. On 28 June 2019, he left the territory of Crimea.
In September 2016 Movenko was beaten by law enforcers for Ukrainian symbols. He was diagnosed with craniocerebral trauma and damaged teeth, and required surgery on his nasal septum. Movenko tried to prosecute his attacker, but the court refused to consider his claim and fined Movenko himself under the administrative article on 'dissemination Nazi symbols'.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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