Personal Account

• "The Human Rights Committee has decided to give you protection," S.N. Yushenkov told me at a meeting with me.
• They (the protection) followed me day and night.
• The first question at the trial was asked of me: "How did you manage to get released from Lefortovo?" "Who are your acquaintances in higher circles?"
• My woe-of-a-lawyer never understood the reason for the gentle treatment of me on the 1st day.
• He was on the commission of those judging: "What if the defendant really has such connections that?!?!"
• Hence their well-being of the trial on the 1st day...
• Then: Judge Marova gave me back my passport, saying: "Everything I can do!"
• Then: they wanted to arrest me; but the protection "fought me off" (or maybe: it was a well-staged performance) and took me out of Russia.
• The trial went on without me.
• They tried me without me and passed a sentence and a ruling contrary to all laws, the Constitution, the Criminal Procedure Code, and human rights.
• At that time in Ukraine, they were knocking out my teeth and dragging me through prisons, (changed 13 prisons in 6 months).