Eva Merkacheva, a member of the Human Rights Council chaired by the President of the Russian Federation, considers the placement in a pre-trial detention center of blogger Elena Blinovskaya, who violated the conditions of house arrest, unjust. A member of the Human Rights Council stated in an interview with socialbites.ca that the court could choose a different sentence.
“I insist that arrest is only necessary where it is impossible not to arrest. It is clear that Blinovskaya does not pose a threat to society. If the state believes it needs to be punished, there are other ways to do it. You may be sent to forced labor, and if a decision has not yet been made, you may apply for a measure such as bail. Every time a violation occurs, the deposited bail amount is canceled and transferred to the income of the state and society. This money can be used to support low-income people. The amount of bail is not limited by law; may pay a surety equal to the damage attributed to him. For some reason, the courts have stopped granting bail altogether, and this is completely incomprehensible. “Who would be at risk if the person giving the bail does not comply with this precaution or even disappears?” — HRC member explained his position.
According to Merkacheva, arrests have become “a simple description of everything.” He recalled that in the event of turning off the heating in the Moscow region, the head of the boiler room of the Klimovsky Special Cartridge Plant, Alexander Chikov, was detained, and in Bryansk, the father of the schoolgirl who carried out the attack was arrested. The HRC member considers such cases as the amendment of the preventive measure against Blinovskaya to be oppressive.
“It turns out that our research is concerned only with punishment for the sake of punishment, not with the aim of restoring social justice. If a person is accused of not paying a certain amount of taxes, why shouldn’t he be given the opportunity to go free if he pays that amount? There are many questions about this. And I believe that all these choices of preventive measures in the form of detention seem, to put it mildly, not only unfounded, but also somehow oppressive. It turns out that arrest is necessary in any incomprehensible situation. This will soon become a meme. “I believe this needs to be changed urgently,” he said.
January 22 Moscow Zamoskvoretsky Court sent Elena Blinovskaya will remain in pre-trial detention for three months; She will remain in custody until April 26. This followed a request from Russia’s Investigative Committee to tighten preventive measures against the blogger, as he repeatedly violated the terms of house arrest, including hosting a party at his home where he had contact with a witness in his case. .
Simultaneously with the arrest request, the investigation brought new accusations against Blinovskaya. They want to file a lawsuit against the blogger under the article on the illegal circulation of payment funds by a group of people with prior conspiracy.
It was learned that the defense objections The decision to transfer Blinovskaya to the pre-trial detention center.