Political prisoner Balukh’s mother: «We lived in Crimea for a long time and only now felt smell of repressions»

Ukrainian political prisoner Vladimir Balukh’s mother, Natalia Balukh wrote an open letter to the Russian President Vladimir Putin from the occupied Crimea.

Woman wrote about the threats and illegal criminal prosecution against her son and activist Vladimir Balukh in her letter to the Russian president.

«I'm sorry for the country where the innocent person can be convicted, where the law enforcement system doesn’t protect the law, though becomes a repressive machine, where with the help of state authority, it is put personally across. And it is absolutely unclear for me whether it is done through your tacit approval, or you are misinformed by the ex-officers of the Security Service of Ukraine, who by chance became the FSS of the Russian Federation officers? If it is the first version, then I am just scared for the future of Crimea», Natalia Balukh wrote in her letter published by the Crimean human rights group.

She stated about the fake criminal case against her son that was completely fabricated and had many violations in. However, Vladimir Balukh was still sentenced to 3 years and 7 months of imprisonment.

«You daily declare from the TV screens about the state greatness, the exceptional Russians’ spirituality and call upon these people to protect their state and protect someone. You continue talking on my TV, though I don’t turn it off, afraid staying completely alone in my deserted home, but just turn off the sound and each cell in my sick body, all the fibers of my suffering soul are assured in opposite: the State took my father away leaving me orphaned and making me knocking the world since I was three, until I settled in Crimea; the State, «succession» of which you are so proud, took away all my money, leaving only serious arthronosos, groin hernia, my heart abrasion and arthritis  as a memory about the hard work for the benefit of our Motherland. And now, in fact, this State takes my son, who I haven’t seen for eight months already, and I'm afraid I will never see him again. I won’t wish this curse even to my enemy when you at the age of 75 lose the most expensive, your hope and support, and they pulled with meat and unbearable pain out of you a key connecting with this world», Natalia wrote.

To remind some facts, Razdolnenskiy District Court of Crimea sentenced the Ukrainian activist Vladimir Balukh to 3 years and 7 months of imprisonment in a general regime colony on August 4, 2017. The court ordered the activist to pay additionally a fine of 10,000 rubles.

It became known on August 12, 2017, that the head of temporally detention centre in Razdolnoye village, Valery Tkachenko used force against Balukh and insulted him on a national basis.

To remind some facts, the FSS officers raided Vladimir Balukh’s and his mother’s houses on December 8, 2016. The same day Razdolnensky District Court elected a preventive measure for the Ukrainian activist in the form of detention. Balukh is accused of «illegal possession of weapons, their main parts, ammunition» (Part 1, Article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The day before detention police threatened Balukh for hanging a street sign on his house wall in honor of the Heavenly Hundreds Heroes.

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