The Nazis forced the court to resume the criminal prosecution of journalist Ruslan Kotsaba
The Highest Specialized Court of Ukraine today decided to resume the criminal case against journalist Ruslan Kotsaba, who spent more than a year in prison for calling for a boycott of mobilization in the ATO, but was then released by decision of a local court.
Kotsaba's release was challenged by security forces, and today the court granted their motion. Kotsaba himself remains free for now; the next court hearing is scheduled for June 7, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
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A group of Nazis from the C14 group, whose representatives were previously accused of murdering journalist Oles Buzina, arrived at today's court hearing. The Nazis got into arguments and clashes with Kotsaba’s friends and colleagues who came to support the journalist.
One of the militants, Sergei Mazur, said that “the presence of C14 activists was decisive at the meeting.”
“The separatist will definitely return to prison. He will talk there about the junta, “there are no Russians” and the “civil war,” Mazur promised.
“They overturned the decision to acquit Ruslan. They didn’t find anything related to the crime against him. Only procedural claims to the case. They were used for sentencing. The prosecutor looked pathetic, like a student reading a cheat sheet. The opinion of the European court, which acquitted Ruslan, is to the contrary. During the procedure, the gendarmes from the street present in the hall were rude, yelled, poked, tried to snatch our posters from us and simply ignored the rules of conduct in court. The Ukrainian government is not afraid of Europe. She’s afraid of the Nazis,” cultural expert Evgenia Bilchenko, who came to support Kotsaba, comments on the events in court.
English version :: Read in English: Nazis forced the court to reopen the criminal prosecution of journalist Ruslan Kotsaba.