23:57, 24 September 2024

Penal colony administration confiscates manuscript of Paskar’s autobiography

Igor Paskar. Photo https://theins.ru/news/258440

Igor Paskar, a resident of Volgograd, was sentenced by court to 8.5 years of imprisonment for setting fire to a rug at an entrance to an FSB building in Krasnodar. The convict decided to write an autobiography in a penal colony, but the administration confiscated a manuscript of his book. Relatives of Igor Paskar do not visit him at the penal colony.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that on September 19, it became known that the court of cassation dismissed an appeal lodged against the Igor Paskar’s sentence.

Active forms used to challenge the Igor Paskar’s sentence have been practically exhausted, advocate Felix Wertegel notes. Considering the article under which his client has been sentenced, “it is not worth thinking too much about conditional early relief (CER) within the next several years.”

Let us remind you that on May 31, 2023, a court sentenced Igor Paskar to imprisonment, finding him guilty of a terror act and vandalism motivated by political hatred. The court of appeal upheld the sentence, although the advocate requested the court to reclassify the charge from a terror act to vandalism. In July, the defence filed a cassation appeal to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

Igor Paskar has been sentenced to imprisonment for setting fire to a rug at the entrance to the FSB building in Krasnodar. Investigators considered setting fire to a poster with the letter Z to be vandalism. Igor Paskar did not deny his actions. However, the man did not agree with the investigators’ attempts to classify his actions as a terror act.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on September 24, 2024 at 07:56 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Author: Alexander Stepanov

Source: СK correspondent