In this trial, the law has been destroyed completely.” Lev Shlosberg, who was asked to be sentenced...

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Prosecutors asked for Lev Shlosberg to be sentenced to 12 years in a penal colony. The prosecutor's office requested 12 years and 1 month in a penal colony for politician Lev Shlosberg in the criminal case over repeated “discrediting” of the army and “fake news” about it. Mediazona reported this. The punishment was requested...

“In this trial, the law has been destroyed completely.” Lev Shlosberg, for whom 12 years in a penal colony were requested, spoke in court

The politician’s statement in the Pskov City Court is cited by Novaya Gazeta:

Your Honor, in this trial, the law has been destroyed completely. The norms of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, and the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation have been violated in the grossest possible way.

My right to a defense was violated repeatedly, deliberately, and demonstratively. The continuation of this trial under such circumstances is absolutely impossible under any composition of the court.

Period.

I have said everything.

Mediazona уточняет, that Shlosberg refused to take part in the closing arguments. Before that, Judge Viktoria Malyamova ended the stage of judicial examination in the politician’s case despite the absence of his lawyers and the court-appointed defense attorney’s lack of readiness for closing arguments. She also did not question Shlosberg.

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