I
will post information about several people in Novorossiya who are in favor of
capital punishment and tough punishment on crimes from several internet
sources.
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The appointed
pro-Russian president of the 'Supreme Court' in the self-proclaimed Donetsk
People's Republic, Eduard Yakubovsky, poses on November 28, 2014 in the court
in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. Yakubovsky, a Russian citizen who
favors the death penalty, he is trying to become the new face of justice in
rebel-head east Ukraine. appointed president of the 'Supreme Court' in the
self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic late September, the burly
ex-investigator from Moscow says he's now busy vetting judges as he attempts to
set up a legal system in this illegal state. AFP PHOTO / ERIC FEFERBERG
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INTERNET SOURCE: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2014/12/01/2003605731
Ukraine rebel leaders
lay down law in eastern area
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT:：The
president of a new court said that Ukrainian law is the basis for the new legal
system, which includes a reintroduction of the death penalty
AFP,
DONETSK, Ukraine
Mon,
Dec 01, 2014 - Page 6
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A Russian citizen who favours the death
penalty, Eduard Yakubovsky, is trying to become the new face of justice in the
self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic
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Eduard
Yakubovsky, a Russian citizen who favors the death penalty, is trying to become
the new face of justice in rebel-held east Ukraine.
Appointed
president of the “supreme court” in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic
in late September, the burly former investigator from Moscow says he is busy
vetting judges as he attempts to set up a legal system in the state that Kiev
and the West consider illegal.
Dressed
in military fatigues, Yakubovsky, 55, is a far cry from the typical image of a
staid magistrate in a gown and suit.
“Believe me, at a time like this, these are the most suitable
clothes for the job,”
Yakubovsky said in an interview at Donetsk city court.
“We
haven’t yet come up with a dress code for the judges that we’ll swear in,” he
said.
The
justice system collapsed in Ukraine’s eastern rebel zones after the pro-Russian
uprising began in April, with the rule of the gun quickly replacing the rule of
law. Arbitrary and brutal punishments have been meted out by armed commanders
with no oversight or accountability.
The
UN in July accused rebels of conducting a “reign of fear and terror” that has
seen people abducted, tortured and even executed. Since then, online videos and
rumors have swirled of popular tribunals handing down death sentences at mob
hearings.
Now,
as the Kremlin-backed separatists tighten their grip over their territory, they
are looking to give themselves the trappings of a legitimate state and greater
control over the population.
Yakubovsky,
who has a Russian passport, but says he has lived in Ukraine for 30 years,
claims he is currently sifting through the resumes of judges and lawyers who
once worked in the Ukrainian system and want to sign up to administer law under
a new regime.
“At
the moment, we’re going through all their documents before appointing any
judges,” he said.
“We
have to check the background of each candidate,” he added.
It
is not just about hiring judges — the criminal code is also a work-in-progress.
Despite
being in a fight to the death with Kiev, Yakubovsky says the rebels have
accepted Ukrainian law as the basis for their system “when it doesn’t
contradict with the our texts.”
They
have already introduced new laws — most notably the re-introduction of the
death penalty, which was officially banned in Ukraine in 2000.
“We have the death penalty and it will be applied,” Yakubovsky says. “For crimes against life, like aggravated murder, some
military crimes and crimes against humanity.”
Until
the new legal system gets up and running, it is down to local commanders to
dole out whatever justice they see fit.
“If it is a combatant from our side who has committed an offense,
then the head of military police decides on the punishment,” a rebel tasked with security on Donetsk’s
streets told reporters.
“If it is a civilian, then it is the commander of the group that
arrests them that takes the decision,”
he said, refusing to give his name.
Particularly
in their sights are drug dealers and users who they say are still operating in
the region.
A
man was recently arrested for taking methamphetamine and jailed for 15 days and
forced to clean out all the prison cells, the rebel said.
Another
individual, accused of manufacturing and selling “large amounts” of narcotics,
has been in jail for three-and-a-half months awaiting trial.
Yakubovsky
said that innocent people might have got caught up in the rebel dragnet. The
problem is, he does not know exactly how many there are and when they will ever
come to trial.
“It’s true that there could be some innocent people among them,” he said. “We’ll
see when they go to trial. If that is the case, they’ll be set free.”
INTERNET SOURCE:
Ukraine's rebels mete out rough justice in authority vacuum
By Mstyslav Chernov (Associated
Press) | Updated April 29, 2015 - 2:45am
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A man stands tied
to a post by pro-Russian rebels, accused of stealing from local people, with a
poster around his neck reading "I am marauder, I beat and steal from
civilians", standing next to a highway in Krasnyi Partyzan, Ukraine,
Thursday, April 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)
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"I am a marauder. I beat up and
robbed my countrymen."
The man's captors were not his foes, but fellow
separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine.
In the maelstrom of conflict, summary justice has
become commonplace in rebel-controlled areas, and it targets civilians and
combatants alike.
Rebel unit commander Alexander Nazarchenko stood a
few paces away from the humiliated fighter in the town of Krasnyi Partyzan. He
said he consulted with superiors before taking such a drastic measure. The
man's offenses, he explained, were particularly outrageous.
"He assaulted a civilian, stole his car, took
cash from his relatives," Nazarchenko said. "He said he was borrowing
the money, but that isn't exactly how you borrow money."
The victim reported the fighter to rebel
authorities, who sentenced him to trench-digging duties — the standard
punishment among the rebel militia. Undeterred, the fighter got drunk and stole
back the car from the same victim.
His chin dug into his chest and hands pinned back
with plastic cable, the man admitted to a reporter that he committed the crimes
— and groaned for a cigarette. His eye was swollen and cheeks puffed up with
bruises; blood had dried on his split lip.
These types of incidents are fruit of the chaos —
judicial, bureaucratic and economic — that has prevailed in eastern Ukraine
throughout the conflict.
Andrei Pasichnik, deputy head of police in Luhansk,
the second largest separatist-held city, condemned the arbitrary justice. But
he conceded that much work remained to get a proper justice system in rebel
areas.
When officials loyal to the central government in
Kiev were forced out last year, they appear to have taken much of the cash and
resources with them.
Pasichnik said efforts are now focused on
installing police departments in areas under nominal Luhansk rebel control.
There are no judges, so sentences are directly passed down by prosecutors.
Things are slightly better in the neighboring
Donetsk region, where rebels have fashioned a would-be breakaway state dubbed
the Donetsk People's Republic.
In early April, the head of the top rebel court,
Eduard Yakubovsky, said tribunals had only resumed administering civil, family
and criminal cases three months earlier. The separatist justice system is
modeled on the old Soviet one, albeit on a far smaller scale than earlier as
money is short.
"Before, in the territory of the
Donetsk region, there were 55 local courts ... employing 3,262 people. That's
the size of a full-fledged mechanized infantry unit," Yakubovsky
said at a press conference. "The number of judges
has now been reduced fourfold."
That has provided fertile ground for kangaroo
courts, particularly in areas under control of Cossack commanders. Cossacks are
members of a semi-military group that traditionally guarded the far-flung
outposts of the Russian empire.
Pasichnik said that anybody taking the law into
their own hands and administering punishments such as whipping or even
executions would face criminal charges.
"Vigilante justice? No. Only the
law-enforcement system has the right to that," Pasichnik said. "The
Cossacks ... did cooperate with us before, of course, but there were certain
individuals that tried to create their mini-states."
That was a veiled reference to Cossack commanders
like Nikolai Kozitsyn, a Russian national who ruled over the town of Perevalsk
in defiance of Ukrainian and rebel authorities alike.
In an interview with The Associated Press in November,
Kozitsyn explained that he believed capital punishment was a necessary
deterrent to crime in unruly times.
"It has had a positive effect," he told
AP. "We have no marauding, no burglaries or car-jacking."
Kozitsyn has since been squeezed out and is currently
thought to be back in Russia. But there are still holdouts.
In Stakhanov, a town of 120,000 people, Cossacks
are still in charge. A Cossack commander who gave only his nom de guerre,
Borsch, explained how he dealt with drunks.
"We caught one drunk and jailed him
for three days. We gave him five lashes," he said. "We then made him drink two cups of sunflower oil, and
let him out at night and let him run back home."
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Mr Druz said Ukraine's
government was a "terrorist" organisation
[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28619599]
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INTERNET
SOURCE: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28619599
Ukraine crisis: Rebel
adviser 'admits executions'
2
August 2014
A
senior adviser to rebels in eastern Ukraine has confirmed that extrajudicial
killings have been carried out "to prevent chaos".
Igor
Druz told the BBC such "executions" sent an important signal to the
rest of the rebel forces.
He
also said Ukraine's government was a "terrorist" organisation,
committing war crimes against civilians.
Igor
Druz is advisor to the rebels' military commander Igor Strelkov, and a senior
spokesman for the rebel-held territories of Donetsk region. He is in charge of
the ideology of the eastern Ukrainian rebel movement. In an interview with the
BBC in Donetsk he outlined his vision of the so-called 'state of Novorossia'
they hope to build here.
He
says he is a strong supporter of Orthodox Christian morality and family values,
and opposed to homosexuality. He hopes to legalise death penalty for the most
serious crimes and he is sure that most rebels will support him in this
initiative.
Mr
Druz told the BBC: "On several occasions, in a
state of emergency, we have carried out executions by shooting to prevent
chaos. As a result, our troops, the ones who have pulled out of Sloviansk, are
highly disciplined."
Sloviansk
was a key rebel stronghold before it was recaptured last month by Ukrainian
government forces.
Mr
Druz said the rebels wanted to establish a socially responsible state that
would protect Christian values.
He also said the Ukrainian government
was "totally illegitimate".
Mr
Druz said: "These people have come to power by
committing murders and staging an armed coup. Now they are committing war
crimes. They are bombing our cities. They shell cities and then blame it on our
fighters. This is nonsense. Why would we shell cities which are under our
control?"
Refugees
fleeing the fighting in the east have told the BBC they believe the Ukrainian
government is shelling residential areas, and complain they had to escape at
short notice with no warning from the government.
Ukraine
rebels lay down law in illegal state
Published on Nov 30, 2014
Russian
Eduard Yakubovsky is trying to become the new face of justice in east Ukraine.
As "Supreme Court" president in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's
Republic, he's now attempting to set up a legal system in this illegal state.
Duration: 00:47
VIDEO
SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_oKOPPfFBQ
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