21:29, 5 June 2007

Trepashkin refuses to have advocates

The consideration by the Sverdlovsk Regional Court of the cassation complaint lodged by Mikhail Trepashkin against the ruling of the Nizhni Tagil District Court on toughening his custody mode that was pre-scheduled for tomorrow, June 6, will not take place. This news was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Gleb Edelev, an activist of the public group in defence of the convicted ex-FSB officer and coordinator of the Yekaterinburg Movement Against Violence (MAV), with reference to Lyubov Kosik, Trepashkin's advocate.

"Trepashkin wrote a petition to the Court asking to consider the case in his presence. Despite this petition and in violation of the law, he was not even brought from his colony in Nizhni Tagil to Yekaterinburg, referring to the absence of a statement of the Regional Court about his removal. To exclude any consideration of the complaint in his absence, Mikhail Trepashkin lodged a refusal from defenders; therefore, according to the law, there will be no court session tomorrow," Gleb Edelev has added.

Author: Vyacheslav Feraposhkin, CK correspondent