#pretrial detention

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Family Connections and Political Struggles: The Case of Umar Khalid

Family Connections Amidst Struggles The family gathers around their laptop in New Delhi once a week, creating a virtual bridge across distances. Sometimes, relatives join the call from northern India or even the United States. They eagerly wait for Umar Khalid, a 37-year-old Indian political activist, to appear on the screen from his prison cell. “How are you, Ammi?” Mr. Khalid boomed during a…

[faultfalha]

The state of Russian justice had long been opaque, its rulings like messages from a distant god. To the journalist from the Wall Street Journal, held in pretrial detention for months, the Telegram notification of the court's latest ruling was a sign of its intractable distance. 'Extended through November', it said, like a broken promise of imminent redemption. An eternity away, a caged bird promised release, an eternity to be served. The shallow waters of justice lapped back and forth and the court's decision brought no resolution, only a promise of prolonged torment. But as time passed, the reporter was left to contemplate the possibilities of freedom, and the incomprehensible power of a court that could sentence an eternity of waiting.

[qqueenofhades]

HAPPY (4TH) INDICTMENT DAY!

YOOOOO IT’S OFFICIAL

Also, there are some BIG co-defendants in this one, including Jeff Clark (the guy Trump wanted as Attorney General during the coup attempt period) AND THE HEAD OF THE GEORGIA REPUBLICAN PARTY.....

.... PLUS. PLUS. RUDY GIULIANI!!! AND MARK MEADOWS!!!!! AND JOHN EASTMAN!!! AND RICO CHARGES FOR TRUMP!!!!

HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

(oh damn, oh snap, a thing of beauty and a joy forever, etc)

Also, apparently this is technically his FIFTH indictment, as the superseding Mar-a-Lago charges added the other day count as another one. But wow this is a WHOPPER.)

[shattered-pieces]

Ukrainian prisoner of war dies in Russian pretrial detention center from multiple chest fractures The driver of the Azov territorial defense, Alexander Ishchenko, was killed in the Rostov pretrial detention center, writes the deputy commander of the brigade, Svyatoslav Palamar, citing the results of the autopsy. The forensic medical examination report conducted in Ukraine stated that Ishchenko died from "closed blunt chest trauma as a result of contact with a blunt object." The report, which Palamar published with the consent of the deceased's family, also noted multiple rib fractures and pain shock. "This is not just another cynical violation of the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War by the Russians. This is a blow to human honor and dignity, to international law, to the principles and values ​​that we defend at the front," writes the deputy commander of Azov. Ishchenko's death was announced on July 31 during a court hearing on his case. The date of death is unknown. ❓ Ishchenko, 55, joined the territorial defense at the very beginning of the full-scale war. He was captured in the spring of that year during the defense of Mariupol. He left behind a wife in Ukraine. Later, Ishchenko and 23 other Azov fighters and civilian employees were accused of actions aimed at the violent seizure of power (Article 278 of the Criminal Code), participation in the activities of a terrorist organization (Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code), and undergoing training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities (Article 205.3 of the Criminal Code). Not all of the defendants defended Mariupol; some had already left the service by the time the war began and were detained during the "filtration". Two prisoners from this case, David Kasatkin and Dmitry Labinsky, returned to Ukraine as part of the exchange. There are also nine women among the prisoners, mostly Azov cooks. 🗣 "The killers could not have failed to understand that such treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war could potentially provoke a symmetrical reaction from the Ukrainian side. They understood this, but they killed anyway," — notes Russian lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov.

https://t.me/istories_media/7162

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“You bragged about the guns being hidden in the walls of your home.” --Judge

Adam Montgomery, New Hampshire inmate 66018, born 1990, incarceration intake in August 2023 at age 33, scheduled for parole consideration December 2036, with conditional release scheduled for December 2051

Theft of Firearm, Receiving Stolen Property, Armed Career Criminal. Firearm Possession

On August 7, 2023, Adam Montgomery, 33, the father of long-missing and presumed dead 5-year-old New Hampshire girl Harmony Montgomery, insisted he did not murder his daughter during his sentencing hearing on several firearm-related offenses.

“I did not kill my daughter Harmony,” the defendant said when asked if he would like to address the court. “I’m looking forward to my upcoming trial so I can refute those offensive claims.”

New Hampshire Superior Court Justice Amy Messer, for her part, said the court was not going to consider the murder case – before handing the defendant a sentence in excess of 32 years – at the bare minimum.

In June 2023, Adam Montgomery was convicted on two counts of theft by unauthorized taking for stealing a rifle and a shotgun from a friend’s home in Manchester. He was also convicted on two counts of receiving stolen property for retaining the guns and a count each of being an armed career criminal, for possessing the rifle, and for possessing the shotgun. An armed career criminal is defined as having been convicted of three or more qualifying felonies.

The judge gave the defendant 15-30 year sentences for each armed career criminal offense – and ordered that those sentences will run consecutively, or, one after another. The court also imposed lesser sentences of 7 1/2 to 15 years for each of the two theft charges – which will run concurrently to one another, or, at the same time, but consecutively to the armed career criminal offenses.

In sum, Adam Montgomery could spend just shy of 90 years in prison, altogether, for gun crimes.

Two lone bright spots for the defendant were noted by Justice Messer. He will be credited 580 days in prison for the time he spent in pretrial detention, and five years of his theft sentences could be suspended if he maintains good behavior in prison.

The state did not seek prison time for the receiving stolen goods charges.

The defendant originally faced eight gun-related offenses in an April 2022 indictment that stem from the theft of the two guns in question.

Defense attorney Caroline L. Smith implored the court to impose mandatory minimum sentences of 10 years for the armed career criminal offenses.

“Here the crime as presented by the state was a crime of opportunity, it did not involve violence, although anyone would say theft is a level of violence, but we don’t have an assault of anybody, we don’t have physical harm to anybody,” the defendant’s attorney argued. “This is a crime of opportunity based on an addiction and to fuel that addiction.”

Smith went on to say that her client did not commit a crime that involved an attempt to steal guns and fire them on someone else but, rather, in order to sell them for “money for drugs or for drugs themselves.”

Those efforts, in the end, did not pan out.

Adam Montgomery’s defense attorney also took note of the murder trial looming in the background.

“It plays a major role and it shouldn’t,” she said – arguing that even the basic fact that her client was facing gun charges was because law enforcement may have been looking for “leverage” against the defendant and/or his estranged wife.

Justice Messer sought to ease those fears before issuing her formal ruling.

“The state is not requesting that the court consider your other pending charges here,” she said, addressing the defendant directly. “I want to tell you that the court is not.”

“But the court notes that there are a significant number of aggravating factors here,” the judge went on. “These predicate offenses are particularly egregious. The guns were stolen, there was a child in the house, the guns were maintained while you yourself had children in the home.”

There was buying and selling back and forth of guns, the court added, including to a convicted sex offender.

“You bragged about the guns being hidden in the walls of your home,” Messer continued – rejecting the defense’s contention that this was just a case of drug addict gone bad. “The gun violence has taken a toll on our community, particularly the young people here.”

Adam Montgomery was also ordered to have no contact with the people he stole the guns from.

Before the sentence was issued, a prosecutor chimed in to say that the state also looks forward to Adam Montgomery’s upcoming murder trial.

3g

[humanrightsupdates]

This week, a court in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, convicted the prominent journalist Stanis Bujakera and sentenced him to six months in prison for sharing an article on social media alleging that Congolese military intelligence had killed a senior opposition official.

On the basis that he had already spent six months in pretrial detention, Bujakera was released on March 19.

Bujakera, 34, Congo’s most-followed journalist on social media, had been detained since September 8. The authorities had arrested and charged him with fabricating and distributing a fake intelligence memo saying that Congolese military intelligence had killed Chérubin Okende, a member of parliament and spokesman for the opposition party Ensemble pour la République. Bujakera was not the author of the memo, which was published in Jeune Afrique.

Okende disappeared in Kinshasa on July 12, 2023, and was found dead in his car with gunshot wounds the next day. The government had publicly denounced Okende’s murder and set up a commission of enquiry. But the public prosecutor handling the case concluded that Okende had committed suicide, and in a March 2 memo he instructed his office to question anyone “gossiping” about the investigation’s conclusions.

Investigations carried out by Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF) and the Congo Hold-Up media consortium determined that the memo was authentic and highlighted serious inconsistencies in the prosecution's claims that Bujakera had received the memo through a Telegram account and was the first person to share it. (Human Rights Watch)

[coochiequeens]

This guy was destroying the home he shared with his sister, planning to shoot up schools and was trying to build a bomb. But sure therapy before transitioning is delaying healthcare.

By Genevieve Gluck December 1, 2023

A trans-identified male has pleaded guilty to Second-Degree Assault for threatening to target three schools in Colorado Springs, Colorado. William Whitworth, 19, accepted an arrangement and entered a plea of “guilty” to a class 4 felony offense on November 6.

Whitworth was arrested on March 31 on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder after a concerned family member called the Elbert County Sheriff’s Office. At the time, he admitted to planning to commit shootings at local schools and deputies dispatched to Whitworth’s residence discovered a labeled floor plan of a school. Whitworth was born male but uses “she/her” pronouns and refers to himself as “Lilly” or “Lily.”

Police were sent to Whitworth’s address after his sister called and claimed that he was punching holes in the wall and had made references to school shootings. According to the affidavit, Whitworth’s sister used “she/her” pronouns to refer to her brother. Police also referred to Whitworth using feminine pronouns in their affidavit, though recorded his sex as “male.”

When police arrived, they found Whitworth drunk in his room, which was littered with filth. The house was in extreme disrepair, and deputies noted that “there was trash piled up all around the house to where it made it hard to walk inside.”

During a search of the premises, authorities discovered a “manifesto” which included the names of several school shooters, as well as additional drawings and floor plans of schools. There were also photos describing a make-shift bomb and detonation device. While speaking to police, Whitworth stated he had gone onto YouTube to learn how to make a detonator for a bomb.

Contained within Whitworth’s notebook was also a list of firearms with 3D printing instructions, and a list of political personalities, including commentator Lauren Southern, with comments.

According to records, there were three schools Whitworth had intended to target, including Timberview Middle School, Prairie Hills Elementary, and Pine Creek High School. While Whitworth confirmed that Timberview was the main target, he also stated he had a desire to attack churches as well.

Initially Whitworth was booked and held on a $75,000 bond. But, while in jail, Whitworth reportedly told a prison official that he still wanted to carry out his plans if bonded out. As a result, his bond was increased to $750,000 in order to make it more difficult for him to leave pretrial detention.

In the press release detailing the plea agreement from the Office of the 18th Judicial District Attorney, Whitworth was referred to by “they/them” pronouns.

Whitworth faces a maximum prison term of 16 years. Sentencing is scheduled for January 19, 2024. His case is part of a worrying trend that has seen an escalation in threats of violence, or actual violence, carried out in US school systems this year.

In November, a trans-identified male was indicted on 14 felony counts following sinister threats to commit a school shooting and murder children “on behalf” of the transgender community. Alexia Willie, born Jason Lee Willie, also promised to rape young girls in public restrooms in retaliation for transphobia.

Court records reveal that Willie threatened to rape young girls in bathroom facilities, in addition to stating his intention to carry out a copy-cat killing of a horrific March shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. During that incident, a trans-identified female left 6 dead, 3 of whom were children aged 9, in an act of brutality that left the nation stunned.

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The Air National Guardsman accused of accessing classified information and posting it in an online forum filed a new motion in court on Monday, asking the judge in his case to treat him like former President Donald Trump and not require he remain in jail until trial. Attorneys for Jack Teixeira, are arguing in the new filing that federal prosecutors made a “reasoned decision not to seek pretrial detention in other espionage cases, including most recently for either former President Donald Trump or his personal aid, Waltine Nauta,” who are also charged under the Espionage Act.

Haven't been keeping up with the man, ballsy (He just revealed he will plead guilty yesterday)

[tomorrowusa]

Ho-hum. Another day, another unexplained death of a Russian businessman, current/former official, or dissident.

It's true that Igor Kotelnikov was on the sketchy side – he was in pretrial detention on a bribery charge. But he was 52 which is still below Russia's plummeting life expectancy. No cause of death was released by official sources.

Somebody up top may have been worried about Kotelnikov's upcoming testimony and decided to silence him once and for all. After falling out of windows, dying while in custody under mysterious circumstances seems to be a favored way for the dictatorship to get rid of people it doesn't want around.

A Russian businessman charged with bribing senior Defense Ministry officials on behalf of suppliers has died in pretrial detention, according to a member of the country's human rights council. Igor Kotelnikov, 52, died on July 8 after feeling unwell in the Moscow pretrial detention center, Yeva Merkacheva said. She did not give a cause of death but said he had been held in a part of the center that has tough conditions. "Rights defenders, examining the pretrial detention center, repeatedly noted that these cells are packed with people. [The cells] are small, hot in warm weather, cold in the winter. In addition, some detainees sit there all day," Merkacheva wrote in a column for the popular daily Moskovsky Komsomolets. She said that Kotelnikov's death was not the first in such cells and that other detainees have committed suicide. Kotelnikov allegedly operated as a middleman in the bribery scheme that rocked the ministry earlier this year, leading to the arrest of former Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov and two other businessmen. Kotelnikov denied the charges.

The Russian defense establishment is notoriously corrupt. Kotelnikov probably knew a lot about the sleaze.

According to the Telegram channel CHEKA-OGPU, officials from the Federal Security Service (FSB) visited Kotelnikov in detention on several occasions to encourage him to finger Ivanov. The channel claimed that when Kotelnikov refused, the FSB officials began pressuring him and later moved him to a punishment cell. CHEKA-OGPU is reportedly close to Russia’s security services. According to the Telegram channel, prison doctors said Kotelnikov should not be held in a punishment cell due to chronic illness and had him sent back. However, prison officials, allegedly under FSB pressure, had him returned, CHEKA-OGPU said. Ivanov, who oversaw the military-industrial complex for the ministry, was arrested in April on charges of taking more than 1 billion rubles ($11.4 million) in bribes from contractors. Ivanov, whose family flaunted its wealth, has denied the charges.

A reminder that this régime is admired by many Republicans in the US who are hoping for a Putin victory in Ukraine – despite the endemic incompetence and corruption in Russia's military. Russia is their model for how to run a country.

[faultfalha]

Investigators working for the Russian government have decided to extend the pretrial detention of the Wall Street Journal reporter through November. This comes as no surprise to those familiar with the Kafkaesque nature of the Russian legal system. Sadly, it is clear that the reporter will not be able to return to his home country any time soon.

[amberlide]

Post Azkaban Seb canon (kind of, advice appreciated)

The time has come... damn it!

I'm not a Sallow fan, I don't like him for... personal reasons. But! I need to add him in my work, I have no idea how to write him, I'm trying to read something but I'm mostly confused XD So, I made my canons for a post Azkaban Seb.

Do these make sense? Anything to add or consider?

Please, help me >.<" 1 - Having killed his abusive uncle, Seb was sent to Azkaban in pretrial detention for few months.

2- He was acquitted for self-defence.

3- He spent those months in the lowest level of the prison, the one where the less dangerous criminals are held.

4- The lowest level is the most humid; he could hear the raging waves of the sea against the mossy and moldy walls. As a result, he suffers from PTSD and cannot not stand humid, isolated places.

5- In order to survive his detention and not lose his mind, he constantly repeated everything he had learnt during his fifth year. When he went back to Hogwarts, he passed his O.W.L.s with flying colours.

6- He lost one year at Hogwarts.

7- Now he can't sleep in the Slytherin dorm anymore, partly because his roommates don't want to be around him, partly because he cannot stand the cold, the dampness and the sound of the waves of the Black Lake in the common room.

8- He sleeps in the kitchens, where it's warmer, he has plenty of food and there is always someone to keep him company (house elves)

9- He cannot stand the cold anymore; he needs constant light and warmth, always. Even an unexpected splash of water can cause severe PTSD.

10- He has a scar on his wrist since he was marked as prisoner.

If anyone has suggestions, please let me know! :)

[russianprotesters]

"He gave his life, it turns out, for nothing." Relatives of the pianist who died in pretrial detention do not want to clarify the circumstances of the incident

Friends of musician Pavel Kushnir, who died in a Birobidzhan pretrial detention center, have announced a fundraiser for cremation and transportation of his ashes to his hometown, Tambov. His mother and brother refused to go and get the body or pay for an independent examination to find out the real cause of his death. Pavel's friends doubt that he could have died only because of a hunger strike, and suspect torture or other physical influence. Pavel's mother Irina Levina does not want to find out and asks to bring the ashes to Tambov after cremation. Before Pavel's arrest, they argued about the war. The pianist's mother and older brother called the war against Ukraine "a necessity because NATO has surrounded Russia." Pavel categorically disagreed with them and called the military invasion of the neighboring country "the will of the fascist regime."

...

In his letters to friends, Kushnir describes his position as follows:

"I think that the Bucha massacre is a disgrace to our Motherland. Fascism is the death of our Motherland. Putin is a fascist. Our Motherland gave millions of its best lives so that there would be no fascism, and we will not accept it. The criminal, vile war that Putin's fascism is waging in our name is a challenge to my conscience, to all the hopes of my personality, to all the best that is in me. I am sure that this can be said not only about me. For many people of my generation, accepting the war, ignoring it is unthinkable. Two nations are dying in this war. It must be stopped as soon as possible."

[mariacallous]

Meduza: 80 years after deportation for Crimean Tatars

Journalists at iStories spoke to the wife of a jailed Crimean Tatar political activist and a lawyer who defends such activists in Russian court. The article’s publication coincides with the 80th anniversary of the Soviet government’s decision to deport the ethnic group from the peninsula for supposed cooperation with the Nazis. iStories describes how Crimean Tatars struggled to survive the mass expulsion, preserve their culture in exile, and fight for decades to return home. Since annexing the peninsula in 2014, Crimean Tatars have had to rely on their group solidarity again in the face of police raids, the designation of the Noman Çelebicihan volunteer battalion as a terrorist group, and the opening of a second pretrial detention prison in Crimea to accommodate arrested Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians abducted in other occupied parts of the country.

iStories’ sources say that many in the community fled Crimea during Russia’s wave of “partial mobilization” but later returned. As men among the Crimean Tatar have been jailed for political activism on “terrorism” charges, many of their wives have taken up their work while maintaining a support network and trying to draw public attention to their prosecutions.

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Tomorrow in Yekaterinburg an American woman will be sentenced for donating $51 to the Armed Forces of Ukraine 33-year-old Russian and US citizen Ksenia Karelina (Havana) admitted her guilt in financing the Ukrainian Armed Forces, SOTAvision reports . Ksenia is charged with treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) for transferring $51 to the Ukrainian foundation Razom for Ukraine on the third day of the war in 2022. Today, Karelina's parents were questioned in the case. According to lawyer Mikhail Mushailov, the parties will debate tomorrow and a verdict will be announced. US Consul General Stuart Wilson came to support Ksenia. The case is being heard by Judge Andrei Mineev, who also delivered the verdict in the case of Evan Gershkovich. The trial is closed to the press and the public. The daughter of Yekaterinburg businessman Pavel Karelin, Ksenia Karelina, moved to the United States in 2015, and in 2021 she got married there and received American citizenship. The girl was detained on January 27 this year, when she came to visit her family in her hometown. She was sentenced to 14 days of arrest for swearing in a public place; presumably, at the same time, security forces found information on her phone about the transfer of funds to a Ukrainian fund. Two weeks later, upon leaving the special detention center, Karelina was detained by FSB officers and charged with treason. On February 8, Ksenia was sent to a pretrial detention center. ��� Sverdlovsk Regional Court, Yekaterinburg, Moskovskaya St., 120, Judge Mineev, Courtroom 5a, starts at 11:00

https://t.me/politzekinfo/6389

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there ya go kiddo that should get you started