On rights and freedoms - in another place" - in the Pskov Regional Court, Lev Schlossberg* was forced to speak in the hearings after the end of the working day and without a meeting with a lawyer.
At the beginning of his speech, as an example, he read the protocol from the lower court, where Judge Maliamova did not even give him 5 minutes to speak with the defense.
Then Schlossberg recalled that his speech was constantly interrupted, especially when the politician quoted the Constitution of the Russian Federation: "These passages upset the judge."
"How can a judge express the sentence "about rights and freedoms elsewhere"? This is the address for this sentence. We lived with this sentence for a month, and finally Judge Maliamova said it out loud. And when I asked the memory to add a comment to the protocol - I did not find this phrase in the protocol, the judge refused.
The politician recalled that due to daily meetings throughout the working day, he could not see his 97-year-old father, breathe fresh air or even take a shower:.
"I was surprised to read the basic principles of criminal law in court. I thought there were things that no longer needed to be discussed. But they turned out to be relevant from the worst side.
There is a special way of life here. Prisoners must receive three hot meals a day. They must maintain hygiene, shower and wash their clothes. By the way, the pre-trial detention center does not have hot water. And what did we get? The modern man, as the standards of the house have evolved, showers twice a day here once a week. And if a person is denied this opportunity, then what is it if not torture and bullying?
We are restricted in movement here. Of course, you can walk around the room, but they are very small. For this purpose, gymnasiums are provided. Otherwise, the body simply suffers from immobility.
How we got back from court is a separate situation. Sometimes we waited 8 hours, because there was only one escort vehicle for each Pskov.