Dmitrievskiy finds court ruling on toughen his verdict to be political

Stanislav Dmitrievskiy, former director of the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship, convicted this February to two years of conditional custody for kindling interethnic enmity, has told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the today's ruling of the Nizhni Novgorod District Court of the city of Nizhni Novgorod is purely political, not legal.

Judge Dmitri Zheleznov has satisfied the petition of the Nizhni Novgorod Criminal-Enforcement Inspection No. 3 and ruled that the next case of committing by Dmitrievskiy of an administrative offence would entail replacement of his conditional punishment by the real custody.

In his presentation Mr Dmitrievskiy has drawn the court's attention to the fact that, in his opinion, the Inspection's petition pursues not legal, but political aims in the form of an attempt to restrict his political activities, which is oppositional in relation to the authorities of the country.

The observers (among them, Mr En Prou, the Second Secretary of the Embassy of the Great Britain and the lawyer of the Interregional Committee Against Tortures, and mass media representatives), according to S. Dmitrievskiy, have noted that the court ruling lacks the motivation part - the Judge has refused whatsoever to give any justification of the ruling.