Sychov gets acquainted with case file

Andrei Sychov and his relatives have completed studying the materials in the criminal case file on his inhuman treatment. During the coming days, the materials are to be handed over to the Chelyabinsk garrison tribunal, reports "Gazeta.Ru."

Today, Evgeniy Belov, Sychov's lawyer, took the 14:00 flight from Moscow to Chelyabinsk in order to take part in the trial. According Marina Muffert, the private's sister, only one victim, Andrei Sychov, is mentioned in the case file materials. There is also only one accused, sergeant Alexander Sivyakov. According to Muffert, Galina, Sychov's mother, has very emotionally expressed her opinion on the materials she read, saying that, if the trial is fair the arguments will be in favour of her son.

According to the data of the prosecutor's office, a group of drunken old-timers from the training process support battalion at Chelyabinsk tank school had been beating eight younger conscripts, including Sychov, during the New Year holidays. As a result, his legs and genitals were amputated.

Among the persons accused is Alexander Sivyakov, resident of Novocherkassk (Rostov Region). The military prosecutor's office charges him with forcing Andrei Sychov to stay in a half-squatting position, inflicting blows on his legs, after which Sychov was placed to the hospital where his legs and genitals were amputated in January 2006. The military prosecutor's office states that sergeant Sivyakov went beyond his commission, and the court passed a decision to put Sivyakov into custody.