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CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 9
28 HOSTAGES OF THE KREMLIN The modern authoritarian regime in Russia is indifferent to the fate of individuals, on whom it is not averse to stepping on in order to implement its foreign and domestic policy goals. Approx. 30 Ukrainians have become hostages of Putin’s regime. These prosecutions have obvious political overtones. Individuals are being pursued in order to prevent them from engaging in public non-violent activities in protest against the occupation of Crimea and in support of the protection of human rights, or they are used as a tool for Russian propaganda purposes, aimed at portraying Ukraine as an ‘external enemy’; consequently, Ukrainians are labelled ‘castigators’, ‘terrorists’, ‘criminals’ and ’spies’. With the use of methods that are unacceptable for any state of law, they were accused of crimes they had not committed, and were illegally imprisoned. Some of the Ukrainians have already been sentenced to long prison terms, and the rest are under no illusions regarding the sentences which will be imposed upon them. The unlawfulness of prosecutions is evidenced by multiple violations, characteristic for almost all of the so-called ‘Ukrainian cases’: • Unclear circumstances of detention or, as was in the case of Nadiya Savchenko, abduction from the territory of Ukraine. • Refusal to provide legal and diplomatic protection: the detainees were provided by a public attorney who actually worked in the interests of the prosecution and did not provide good-quality legal aid. • Isolation of detainees from contact with their family and relatives, due to which the latter had no information about the whereabouts of the detainees or the course of the criminal prosecution. For several months, Mykola Karpyuk’s family members did not even know if he was alive. • Classifying criminal cases in order to conceal the existing violations of the proceedings. For the same reason, lawyers were recommended by investigative bodies, under threat of criminal responsibility, to sign a statement on non-disclosure of the case file. • The use of physical and psychological violence in order to compel the detainees to slander themselves and to confess to the crimes. As a result, many could not stand the pressure and made deals with the investigative bodies. • Charges are not supported by sufficient evidence bases and, in most cases, are based on flimsy testimonies of witnesses. In some cases, torture was also exerted on witnesses. • Disparity of the charges and the alleged crimes. • Unjustified declaration and a spontaneous decision by the Russian authorities to ‘extend the jurisdiction’ on crimes, committed outside the Russian state and against non-Russian citizens. This contradicts not only common sense, but the international agreements and laws of the Russian Federation, and also creates a dangerous precedent, as any crime committed on the territory of Ukraine or another state may ‘be investigated in Russia’. 65
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