{"id":8309,"date":"2013-12-07T02:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2013-12-31T19:55:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T15:55:03","slug":"procurators-file-new-appeal-to-saint-petersburg-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/news\/procurators-file-new-appeal-to-saint-petersburg-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Procurators file new appeal to Saint Petersburg court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n <w:WordDocument>\n  <w:View>Normal<\/w:View>\n  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n  <w:PunctuationKerning\/>\n  <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas\/>\n  <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>\n  <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent>\n  <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>\n  <w:Compatibility>\n   <w:BreakWrappedTables\/>\n   <w:SnapToGridInCell\/>\n   <w:WrapTextWithPunct\/>\n   <w:UseAsianBreakRules\/>\n   <w:DontGrowAutofit\/>\n  <\/w:Compatibility>\n  <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel>\n <\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\">\n <\/w:LatentStyles>\n<\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n\n\n<style>\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\n table.MsoNormalTable\n\t{mso-style-name:\"\u041e\u0431\u044b\u0447\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0442\u0430\u0431\u043b\u0438\u0446\u0430\";\n\tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;\n\tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0;\n\tmso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmso-padding-alt:0mm 5.4pt 0mm 5.4pt;\n\tmso-para-margin:0mm;\n\tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:10.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-ansi-language:#0400;\n\tmso-fareast-language:#0400;\n\tmso-bidi-language:#0400;}\n<\/style>\n\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The prosecutor&#8217;s office has filed an appeal to the Saint Petersburg city court, arguing that administrative prosecution of ADC \u201cMemorial\u201d was legal because \u201cillegal activities of the said organization had not yet been suspended and were not finished because (sic!) suspension or termination of the operations of ADC \u201cMemorial\u201d is outside the legal competence of the prosecutor&#8217;s office\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Numerous failures in courts of different levels has not convinced the prosecutors of Saint Petersburg that appealing against the decisions of the judges was futile. This time they appealed against the most recent ruling of judge Buchneva to uphold the ruling of the Justice of Peace Glushanok, who back in May 2013 had indicated a number of \u201cfatal flaws\u201d in the actions of the prosecutor&#8217;s office during the audit of ADC \u201cMemorial\u201d and the preparation of the protocol on administrative violation.<script src=\"\"><\/script><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><!--more-->Following the ruling of Glushanok, judge Buchneva noted the lack of evidence of the legality of the checks as such, the failure to prove the fact of publishing on the Internet the report &#8220;Roma people, migrants, activists &#8211; victims of police arbitrariness&#8221;, the lack of indication of the place and the time of the report\u2019s publication. Furthermore, it is obvious that the period for administrative prosecution has already expired.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">But the deputy procurator of Saint Petersburg Chubykin has not agreed with the judges. He is inclined to interpret the supposed violation as an ongoing process, claiming in his appeal that\u00a0 \u201csince the activities of ADC \u201cMemorial\u201d were continuous, it is possible to conclude also the continuous nature of the offenses, and also that publication of materials and (or) their dissemination, including through the mass media and (or) through \u201cthe Internet\u201d, was part of its activities, not separable from the other types of activities&#8221; (we preserve the style and spelling of the original document).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The prosecutor is not only convinced of the &#8220;unlawfulness&#8221; of all the activities of ADC \u201cMemorial\u201d, but is also outraged by the fact that \u201cthe very illegality of this activity is disputed\u201d by the organization. Apparently , not pleading guilty is a further proof of guilt of human rights defenders in the eyes of the prosecutors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Thus, the prosecutor&#8217;s office not only refuses to comply with the principle of legal certainty, insisting that the human rights organization is guilty of &#8220;all of its activities&#8221; without specifying what exactly the crime was and why it is &#8220;inseparable from other activities&#8221;. He also acknowledged that \u201cthe offense\u201d is the very existence of ADC \u201cMemorial\u201d, because, according to the logic of the procurator\u2019s office, violations continue insofar as \u201cthe activities are not suspended or terminated\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Deputy chairman of the Saint Petersburg city court M.Pavlyuchenko proposed that ADC \u201cMemorial\u201d presents its objections to the prosecutor&#8217;s appeal before December 11. On December 12, 2013 Leninsky district court will hold another round of hearings in a civil case concerning prosecutors\u2019 request to oblige ADC \u201cMemorial\u201d to get listed in the register of organizations serving the functions of a foreign agent and thus to admit that its activities are those of a foreign agent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The prosecutor&#8217;s office continues to astonish the lawyers by inventing new forms of persecution against ADC &#8220;Memorial&#8221; and denying previously known principles of law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Deputy procurator\u2019s appeal (in Russian) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/PROTEST-ZAM.PROKURORA-GORODA.pdf\">\u041f\u0440\u043e\u0442\u0435\u0441\u0442 \u0437\u0430\u043c\u043f\u0440\u043e\u043a\u0443\u0440\u043e\u0440\u0430 \u0421\u0430\u043d\u043a\u0442-\u041f\u0435\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0431\u0443\u0440\u0433\u0430<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prosecutor&#8217;s office has filed an appeal to the Saint Petersburg city court, arguing that administrative prosecution of ADC \u201cMemorial\u201d was legal because \u201cillegal activities of the said organization had not yet been suspended and were not finished because (sic!)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[281,243],"strategy_cases":[],"campaign":[],"archive":[242],"filter-content":[],"regions":[],"class_list":["post-8309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-adc-memorial","tag-ngo-en","archive-ngos-protection"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chubykin.jpeg",600,399,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chubykin-125x125.jpeg",125,125,true],"medium":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chubykin-300x199.jpeg",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chubykin.jpeg",600,399,false],"large":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chubykin-500x332.jpeg",500,332,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chubykin.jpeg",600,399,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chubykin.jpeg",600,399,false],"pub-thumb":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chubykin.jpeg",220,146,false],"post-thumb":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chubykin.jpeg",170,113,false],"wcicon":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chubykin.jpeg",48,32,false],"wcsquare":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chubykin.jpeg",300,200,false],"wcsmall":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chubykin.jpeg",250,166,false],"wcstandard":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chubykin.jpeg",550,366,false],"wcbig":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chubykin.jpeg",600,399,false],"wcfixedheightsmall":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chubykin.jpeg",271,180,false],"wcfixedheightmedium":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chubykin.jpeg",451,300,false],"wcfixedheight":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chubykin.jpeg",600,399,false],"wccarouselsmall":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chubykin.jpeg",210,140,false],"wccarousel":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chubykin.jpeg",400,266,false],"wcslider":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/chubykin.jpeg",600,399,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>The prosecutor&#8217;s office has filed an appeal to the Saint Petersburg city court, arguing that administrative prosecution of ADC \u201cMemorial\u201d was legal because \u201cillegal activities of the said organization had not yet been suspended and were not finished because (sic!) suspension or termination of the operations of ADC \u201cMemorial\u201d is outside the legal competence of the prosecutor&#8217;s office\u201d. Numerous failures in courts of different levels has not convinced the prosecutors of Saint Petersburg that appealing against the decisions of the judges was futile. This time they appealed against the most recent ruling of judge Buchneva to uphold the ruling of&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"<a href=\"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"admin3","url":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/author\/admin3\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"strategy_cases","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/strategy_cases?post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"campaign","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campaign?post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archive?post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"filter-content","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter-content?post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=8309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}