A Statement by Jordan Association of Caucasus Circassian Friends

A Statement by Jordan Association of Caucasus Circassian Friends

Statement to the Public Opinion to Condemn and Denounce the Intention to Prosecute the Circassian Activist Martin Kochesoko

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The Jordan Association of Caucasus Circassian Friends is closely following what is happening in regard to the Circassian youth Martin Kochesoko, from Nalchik, KBR, to whom a fabricated case was attributed when he was in his car on his way returning home on June 7, 2019, where his car was stopped in inhuman method, he was threatened with death or enforced disappearance if he does’t cooperate with Russian security personnel according to instructions directed to him. At the same time, drugs were inserted in his clothes and his private car. As a result, he was arrested under gun threat on charges of drug possession, under conditions of verbal and physical intimidation and exaggeration, according to horrific police bullying and hooliganism, by fabricating a state of intimidation when he was placed under its influence at the time, related to the possession of marijuana drug, which happened approximately at the same time when the Russian journalist Ivan Golunov was charged and arrested in Moscow.

The world was astonished at the time when Ivan Golunov’s friends, fellow journalists, human rights activists, and newspapers that stood by him managed to pressure the Russian Ministry of Interior to drop fabricated charges related to drug smuggling after the police had accused him by viciously charging him, in which it claimed that they had seized drugs in his bag and in his house. As a result, the Russian president was asked to dismiss two senior police and drug smuggling generals. Golunov is known to conduct investigation news of corruption in the Moscow municipality under controversial circumstances. However, the trial in Martin Kochesoko’s case is scheduled to begin on August 11, 2020.

The pursuit of double standard in the implementation of the law that must have a unified concept for all, places people in a climate of fear and its promotion of discouragement as a method of extortion, coercion, oppression and falsification of facts, not to mention the intrusion of privacy. In the investigation conducted by the Federal Security Services and its branches spread throughout the country from end to end, they follow authoritarian methods to the extent of carrot-and-stick to witnesses to give deliberate and ready testimony according to time and location.

It is no logic in any way, thus, it is not acceptable, does not comply with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, where the law is applied in an atmosphere of terror, psychological and physical harm, isolation of the innocent, placing them under the influence of psychological trauma and panic, in light of show trials and fabricated slanders, accusations of activists and bringing them to an unfair hypocrite judiciary. Fundamentally fabricated cases in which judgments are issued arbitrarily, and sometimes even fabled rulings.

Accordingly, we demand that the fabricated accusation against Martin Kochesoko be dropped, stop the comic play described as a trial, and the punishment of the involved regionals and federalists who are in Moscow for the immoral approach they followed against one of the  known Circassian youth, who is know for his high character and his diligent work to serve the local community and to pursue the realization of the rights guaranteed by the applicable laws.

The Jordan Association of Caucasus Circassian Friends

10 August, 2020.

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