15 September 2014, 16:53
MCC refuses to postpone punishment to figurant in Politkovskaya's murder case
Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has dismissed the petition lodged by advocates of Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, a figurant in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", and asking to postpone the execution of punishment.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that back on December 14, 2012, the MCC sentenced the former policeman Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov to 11 years in prison. His defence now asks to postpone the enforcement due to his poor health status. At the court session on September 12, a neurologist Nikolai Zelenskiy and a psychiatrist Andrei Mitchenko stated that at the medical unit of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) it is impossible to provide the necessary treatment to Pavlyuchenkov.
During the today's session, Judge Irina Vyrysheva from the MCC has dismissed the above advocates' petition, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.
She noted in her ruling that according to the certificate received from the medical unit of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia (known as UFSIN), Pavlyuchenkov's diseases are not on the list of diagnoses that can be used to exempt from punishment. The judge found the above conclusions of the psychiatrist and neurologist insufficient.
Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.
Author: Yulia Buslavskaya Source: CK correspondent
