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Boris Vladimirovich Stomakhin (Russian: Борис Владимирович Стомахин), (born August 24, 1974, Moscow), is a Russian radical politician, former editor of Samizdat periodicals, and opposition figure.
Journalism
Boris Stomakhin was an editor of monthly newspaper "Radikalnaya Politika" since 2000. Besides, he contributed numerous materials to Kavkaz Center, the Islamic internet agency that promotes independence of Chechnya. He also issued a great number of Samizdat periodicals.
Political career
Stomakhin organized numerous demonstrations against wars in Chechnya and criticized Russian government. He claimed that modern Russia is a totalitarian state and therefore must be destroyed, called Russians a "nation of occupiers", and compared President Vladimir Putin to Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic. He also was a leader of marginal political group "Revolutionary Contact Association" (RCA). Other members of this organization are Pavel Kantor, Dmitry Tarasov, Ludmila Evstifeeva, and Pavel Luzakov.
Stomakhin was accused of inciting hatred by his articles about the Chechen conflict. A case against him was opened in December 2003. His home was raided in April 2004 and his computers and books were confiscated. Stomakhin was interrogated. Prosecutors planned to declare him mentally ill and send him for involuntary treatment to Moscow Serbsky Institute where Pyotr Grigorenko and Viktor Nekipelov were treated in the past. Such actions have been prevented by the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia that had conducted an independent unofficical expertise . Involuntary Psychiatric expertise at Moscow Serbsky Institute which was held after the repeated arrest of Stomakhin found that Stomakhin is competent for the trail. Stomakhin escaped to the Ukraine seeking political asylum status, which was eventually denied.
Arrest and conviction
Having returned to Moscow, Stomakhin was arrested on March 21 2006. It was reported that he tried to escape again during his arrest and fell down from the fourth floor of his building. His spine and bones were broken. According to Stomakhin's lawyer Alexei Golubev, "He has been kept in a cell all this time, despite the fact that he is practically paralyzed." Psychiatric expertise found that Stomakhin is competent for the trail.
He was sentenced to five years of prison for igniting religious and national hatred, promoting violent change of constitutional regime, defamatory statements, and extremist activities, according to the official court sentence. Opposition figures like human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina and politician Valeria Novodvorskaya argued that Stomakhin has only exercised his right of free speech and did nothing violent, and therefore he is a peaceful political dissident prosecuted by authorities . Journalist Vladimir Abarinov decsribes this story as crude falsification where Stomakhin was accused of publishing an article against Russian Orthodox Church that was actually written by a different person.
References
- ^ Independent journalist given five-year sentence allegedly for inciting ethnic strife Human Rights House Network
- Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia
- Conviction of Boris Stomakhin: Opinions (Russian) - by Anna Karpuk for grani.ru
- Scapegoats - by Valeria Novodvorskaya for grani.ru
- Second-hand fascism - by Valeria Novodvorskaya for grani.ru
- Stomakhin Case - by Vladimir Abarinov for grani.ru.
External links
- Official Court Sentence on Russian language dated 20.11.2006
- Conviction
- Maksim Sokolov opinion
- Articles written by Boris Stomakin
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