Nov 17, 2022 - The Hague ruling,Sentences Three to Life Imprisonment for MH17 Crash

2 years ago
232

The District Court of The Hague has ruled that the MH17 aircraft shot down in 2014 was hit by a Buk air defense system launched from Pervomaisky in Kharkov region
Source https://t.me/rtnews/32527
......................

☝️ On November 17, the Hague court has finally delivered a verdict on MH17 case. Two Russian nationals, Igor Girkin and Sergey Dubinsky, and Ukrainian citizen Leonid Kharchenko were declared guilty of complicity in the crash of Malaysia Airlines MH17 in eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. The defendants were given life sentences in absentia. all of whom held leadership positions in anti-govt militias.

A fourth defendant, Russian citizen Oleg Pulatov, was declared not guilty. Pulatov was the only person on trial who chose to be represented by a lawyer. He was found not guilty.

➖According to comments of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, both the proceedings and the outcome of the trial prove that the process was based on political agenda with the objective to blame Russia for the tragedy.

➖Throughout the entire proceedings the court had been under unprecedented pressure from politicians and the media. The court ignored the fact that the conclusions of the Dutch prosecutors were based on evidence from anonymous witnesses whose identities had been classified, as well as questionable information and materials provided by an interested party – the Security Service of Ukraine, which had been repeatedly caught giving false and contradictory information.

➖Arguments of the defense with regard to lack of any compelling and decisive evidence that MH17 was shot down by a Russian missile was ignored. The court considered only materials that supported the West-promoted version were while declassified documents provided Russian Defense Ministry have been ignored.

➖There was an option to receive more clear evidence from US satellite images taken on the day of the crash, but Washington has refused all requests to disclose them fully or partially.

➖Blindly accepting questionable evidence from an interested party, ignoring evidence provided by defense and issuing the verdict on the basis of assumptions instead of facts violate all common principles of justice including the presumption of innocence. No modern system of law envisages issuing life sentences on the basis of indirect evidence and assumptions.

➖These court hearings are some of the most scandalous in the history of justice with numerous violations of the process and biased nature of the jury. The verdict will surely become a part of history as an example of complete dependence of European justice system on political decisions of the collective West.
..........
Russia will not have to comply with the decision of the Dutch court in the case of the crash of the MH17 aircraft in Ukraine in 2014, there are no international acts in this regard, Pavel Laptev, the first representative of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights, said, noting that in the case inconsistencies. According to the lawyer, on the fragments of the Buk missile found at the crash site of MH17, the number ended with the numbers 7379, which indicated that it belonged to Ukraine, but this fact was not taken into account by the court. - AZgeopolitics.

.................
Russians Sentenced To Life Over MH17 Downing WON’T Be Extradited

The two Russians sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment in the case of the downed Malaysian Boeing MH17 will not be extradited to the Netherlands, a law enforcement source told Interfax.

"The Constitution of the Russian Federation establishes a direct ban on the extradition of Russian citizens to foreign states. That is why neither one nor the second convict will be extradited," the source said.

Soource RT (https://t.me/rtnews)

Loading comments...