Trepashkin's Case

• Trepashkin outlines the essence of the evidence he obtained regarding the FSB's involvement in the apartment bombings in Moscow and predicts his own arrest.
• The interview with Trepashkin is the main part of the 15-minute film "Hero of Our Time" by director Andrei Nekrasov.

Contact for an interview with the film's director Andrei Nekrasov:
+1-646-321-7030

Background

• The interview with Trepashkin was recorded in the fall of 2003 during the filming of the movie "DISBELIEF" (www.nedoverie-film.com) about the fate of the daughters of a woman who died in the explosion on Guryanova Street.
• Trepashkin, who investigated the bombings as a lawyer for the Morozov sisters, asked for the tape to be released if anything happened to him and he was unable to present his evidence in court regarding the apartment bombings case.

Arrest and Trial

• He was arrested on October 22, 2003 — five days before the start of the trial.
• Today, Trepashkin himself is on trial on charges of disclosing state secrets.
• The FSB claims that he collected information about the bombings on behalf of British intelligence services "in order to discredit the FSB."
• For a month after his arrest, Mikhail Ivanovich Trepashkin was subjected to torture, which stopped as soon as the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg accepted his complaint for consideration.

International Response

• The International Commission of Jurists called the Trepashkin case a "mockery of justice."
• The US State Department included it in its annual human rights report as an example of the manipulation of the judicial system for political purposes in Russia.

In his appeals, Mikhail Trepashkin, currently held in "Matrosskaya Tishina" (IZ 77/1).