Subject: Nikitin Trial Date Set in St. Petersburg
From: Bellona (bellona@bellona.no)
Date: Thu Oct 07 1999 - 15:10:04 EDT
BELLONA MESSENGER, 06 October, 1999--Nikitin trial date set.
St. Petersburg City Court to hear the Nikitin case on 23 November 1999
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St. Petersburg City Court Judge Sergei Golets will hear the espionage
case against environmentalist Alexandr Nikitin beginning November 23,
1999. Nikitin has been charged eight successive times with espionage for
his participation in a Bellona report detailing the unsafe nuclear waste
storage practices of the Russian Northern Fleet.
The court hearing is related to the additional investigation conducted by
the Russian Security Police, or FSB. The case was sent for further
investigation by the same judge, Sergei Golets, in October 1998. The Judge
said then that the indictment submitted by the FSB was vague and
inconsistent with Russian federal legislation. The Supreme Court of the
Russian Federation reaffirmed Golets's decision in February 1999.
"But the new indictment, prepared by the FSB for the court, had not been
made consistent with Russian federal legislation, as the two courts
demanded," says Nikitin's defender Yury Schmidt.
Aleksandr Nikitin is still indicted in accordance with secret and
retroactive normative acts--in violation of both Russian and international
principles of legal protection.
On July 26, 1999, Aleksandr Nikitin, frustrated with the Russian legal
system, forwarded his application to the European Court of Human Rights in
Strasbourg. The application has been registered as case no. 50178/99.
Currently, a judge in Strasbourg has been appointed to evaluate the
application and make recommendations for further procedure.
for more info: http://www.bellona.no/e/russia/nikitin/
E-mail: info@bellona.no
Please dissiminate this information further and/or make a
link to the above URL, thank you.
Regards, Igor Kudrik, Researcher, the Bellona Foundation
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