A sequence of reporters, activists, lawyers, incarcerated, which instead clashes with the story of Maria Osyannikova
It is another painful story of violence and descent into the concentration camp horror of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin’s Russia. And among other things, it underlines certain very strange disparities in treatments that raise disturbing questions. While Marina Osyannikova – the producer of Rossiya1 who raised a pacifist sign during the evening news – was released with a small fine, and now collaborates with an important weekly in Germany – yesterday in late afternoon in Russia the reporter Maria Ponomarenko, who was Jailed for telling the truth about Mariupol – that Russian missiles had been fired on the Mariupol drama theater, failing to support the Kremlin’s narrative of an internal explosion caused by the Azov battalion – has now been transferred to a psychiatric detention center. Russian reporter collective Sota says “for a psychiatric visit,” which must be thorough enough, as she will be held there for at least a month. It doesn’t have to be nice, ending up in a psychiatric hospital as a Putin opponent in Russia.
RusNews, the newspaper of Maria Ponomarenko, communicates the story on Telegram, in a desperate attempt to keep a light on in a Europe that is falling asleep: “At this moment our colleague is in the Regional Clinical Psychiatric Hospital of Altai, located in Barnaul in via Suvorova, 13 ». An activist from Novosibirsk, Yana Drobnokhod, told on Telegram that she went to the psychiatric center to meet the reporter, who is subjected to an isolation regime dedicated essentially to those with dangerous mental problems. “We went to see her today. She is forbidden letters, meetings with her relatives. But you will be able to meet a lawyer. ” The contacts will take place through the lawyer, Sergey Podolsky.
The stories of reporters or even just simple dissidents who risk years in jail for gestures of normal dissent – or in the case of the reporter, for having done her job – are multiplying. And they shed an even stranger light on the story of Marina Osyannikova, who according to many observers, not just Ukrainians, had never been reported for the slightest activism before, and was miraculously forgiven by the Russian authorities. The latest to pay, however, was Sasha Skolichenko, a Russian activist accused of simply replacing price tags in a grocery store with anti-war signs. She has been detained since April 11, and charges were filed against her on June 30 that could lead to five to ten years in prison. Oleksandra Matviichuk, director of the Center for Civil Liberties (Ukraine) / Democracy Defender (awarded by the OSCE), reports that Skolichenko “had to face psychological pressure and bullying while being detained by her cellmates”. Torture of detainees is obviously prohibited by all international conventions.
The list of Russian journalists arrested only in recent months is endless certainly always incomplete, Isabella Yevloeva (Fortanga), Ilya Krasilshchik, Alexander Nevzorov, Andrey Novashov (Sibir.Realii, Tayga.info), Sergei Mikhailov (Listok), Mikhail Afanasyev ( Novyi Fokus). On June 27, one of the few Russian opposition leaders who had not yet been arrested and openly opposed the war, Ilya Yashin, was put in jail. The case of the journalist Ivan Safronov, even accused of “treason”, continues to claim victims in civil society, Dmitry Talantov, president of the Bar Association, Safronov’s lawyer was also arrested at the end of June: Talantov according to the Kremlin would have disseminated information deliberately false about the actions of the Russian armed forces (the accusation allowed by the new law passed by Putin on March 5). The darkest Soviet times seem to be returning, those in which the writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, writing to Iosif Stalin to ask to be released, did not bend with great dignity: the greatest torture for me, he said, is the prohibition on writing. And for us the prohibition of knowing the truth.
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