France, Alternative Libertaire AL #249 - Russia: On April 11, in the street for Alexandr Koltchenko (fr, it, pt)

 France, Alternative Libertaire AL #249 - Russia: On April
11, in the street for Alexandr Koltchenko (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] 

The next 16 April, 11 months to the day after his arrest and kidnapping by the Russian 
authorities, Ukrainian Alexandr antifascist Koltchenko will determine the fate they 
reserve it for the coming months. Indeed the Moscow judges who will decide his case on the 
continuation of his detention. They might also communicate the date of his trial. ---- 
Alexandr Koltchenko is an anti-fascist activist, anarchist and environmentalist. It is 
also a postal worker and trade unionist Ukrainian student who lived in Crimea until May 
16, 2014, when he was the victim of arrest and kidnapping by the Russian secret services, 
ie the FSB, former KGB. He is currently held in Moscow Lefortovo Prison is a detention 
center of the FSB.

15 to 20 years in a labor camp

The Russian authorities accuse him and three others[1] so delirious for organizing a 
terrorist group linked to the Ukrainian far right Pravy Sektor (right sector, fascist 
organization). It is thus accused of planning the explosions near the Lenin statue in 
Simferopol on 8 and 9 May 2014, sabotaged the railway tracks and power lines and attempted 
to burn in April of the same year local political organizations Putin supported the tyrant.

In fact, the Russian authorities want to silence an opponent who participated in the 
anti-fascist camp to Maidan Square protests in Kiev, which led to oust the corrupt 
President Viktor Yanukovych, the Party of Regions (pro-Russian). They do not have borne it 
opposes the Russian military occupation that has distorted the referendum in the Crimea by 
organizing peaceful and popular events.

For all these reasons, Alexandr risk 15 to 20 years in a labor camp, knowing that in 
Russia any inmate is ordered to this regime, whatever its worth, even if he finds himself 
in custody.

In Ukraine and Russia, anarchists, anti-fascists and Russian progressives are mobilizing 
to him. In France an international solidarity campaign began with the participation of 
organizations such as the League of Human Rights, the International Federation of Human 
Rights, Solidarity, the Snesup-FSU, Emancipation, the CNT-F, the CNT-SW Alternative 
libertarian Together, the NPA, the Insurgent and several groups from the Russian 
immigration and ukraininenne in France.

In Russia, our comrades Avtonomie deistvie (Autonomous Action, libertarian communist 
organization) play a particularly active role in the organization of solidarity. With the 
Communist international network libertarian Anarkismo including AL part, we strive to give 
a global dimension to this fight.

The April 11, will be important, since Paris protest rallies will be held on the outskirts 
of the Russian Embassy, but also from Ukraine to the extent that the authorities of this 
country have chosen to ignore this matter while they practice prisoner exchanges with the 
Russian authorities and that they deny to his Ukrainian Alexandr nationality in order to 
have him tried as a Russian, he denies.

Media silence

In recent news that he was able to communicate, Alexandr that he is well and that his 
political beliefs are intact, despite the regime to which they are ordered. That said 
contacts with the outside are near zero and defense work his lawyer is largely hampered by 
the Russian authorities.

Mobilisation is therefore urgent to publicize this case in a context marked by the 
assassination of the opponent Boris Nemtsov. This shows that the Russian state and the 
oligarchs with whom Putin governs are determined to crush any dissenting voice in both 
Russia and Ukraine. So take advantage of the fact that the media give a little more 
attention to the violation of freedoms in Russia to publicize the situation Alexandr. The 
media silence surrounding the case is particularly outrageous that the international press 
and especially the French press excessively mediate between the Russian Alexei Navalny 
(see box below). Other initiatives will follow which we will report on the Internet AL site.

Laurent Esquerre (AL Paris Northeast)

[1] Of these, one finds the filmmaker Oleh Sentsov defended by several renowned filmmakers 
including Wim Wenders and two other people who have chosen to work with the Russian 
authorities even load Koltchenko and Sentsov.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Russie-Le-11-avril-dans-la-rue