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Speech of defender Vasily Muravitsky, lawyer Andrei Gozhyi

Speech of defender Vasily Muravitsky, lawyer Andrei Gozhyi in Court of Appeal of Zhytomyr region In a democratic society, a court should not become a lever of political violence. It is important to move the decision-making center from Bankova Street, from the office of the Security Service and the Prosecutor to the advisory room of the Court of Appeal, where the judges, assessing the pros and cons, based on their internal conviction, which is expressed in the phrase «I take this decision because I am internally convinced in its correctness, because it is based on facts that correspond to reality, I have investigated and verified «- will take not only a legitimate, but a fair decision. Not to mention the «politicized» nature of the case and the degree of incandescence around it created by the media, all the more so without going over to assessing the evidence...