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I want to start by reminding you that you will be considering,
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among other things, my lawsuit against being declared a repeat offender.
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And, apparently, some of my other lawsuits of
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the same kind, which already exist or will arise.
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And the current situation as a whole.
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I wanted to start by saying this.
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If you were to ask me:
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“Tell us, please, Alexei, how are you, have you been released from the punishment
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cell after serving 15 days there?”
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I would answer: no, Your Honour.
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I am back in the punishment cell, because I have served 15 days there,
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I was released back to the strict confinement unit, I spent the night there,
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and then they sent me back to the punishment cell for another 12 days.
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This perfectly illustrates the overall structure and meaning of what is happening.
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At the last hearing I was given 12 days in a punishment cell, and
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they said outright: “Well, you said it yourself at the last court session”
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Obviously, they were referring to my statement that I think the mobilisation
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that is now taking place in Russia is criminal.
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Absolutely no one is even hiding the political context of what is going on here.
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So before we move on to a substantive discussion of this first ominous violation
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of not buttoning up my top button,
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I want to say both to you, Your Honor,
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and to you, distinguished representatives of the regional administration,
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and to you, distinguished representatives of the institutional administration,
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and to the entire Federal Penitentiary Service,
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and to the Russian authorities, and to Putin, and to anyone.
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If I have the right to speak out against this criminal mobilization,
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because of which tens of thousands of people are going to die in the
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trenches somewhere for god knows what, and tens of thousands
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of families will lose their mothers, brothers, fathers, and so on...
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If I oppose the fact that hundreds of thousands of our people
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are being sent to kill other people, innocent people like them, I will spend
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12 days in a punishment cell, and I will spend as much time more time there
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as will be necessary to defend my right to speak out against this.
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This punishment cell won’t shut me up.
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This is a crime against my country.
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I don’t relate to it, and I won’t keep quiet.
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I hope that everyone else who hears me will not keep quiet about it.
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Because what’s happening now is much more terrible
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than any 12 or 122 days in a punishment cell.
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This is a historic crime, this is involving hundreds of thousands
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of people in the crimes that Putin is committing.
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He’s just like a mafia, you see?
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He’s already binding hundreds of thousands of people by blood.
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With this mobilization, and with these fake referendums.