In Crimea, almost 600 protocols were drawn up under the article on “discrediting” the army

In Crimea, this and last year, 590 reports of administrative offenses were drawn up under Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code “Public actions aimed at discrediting the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.” These are the data of the “Crimean process”.

Among the peculiarities of consideration of such cases, human rights activists note violations of the right to defense. Thus, the courts do not call prosecution “witnesses” for questioning at hearings, i.e. essentially informers. In addition, judges ignore the results of linguistic examinations.

In addition to anti-war phrases on social networks, Crimeans are often attracted for less obvious things, such as reposting interviews, photographs from fifteen years ago during military service, and listening loudly to news from Ukrainian channels.

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