(12 Nov 2024)
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Moscow – 12 November 2024
1. Dr. Nadezhda Buyanova brought into glass cage in court
2. Various of Buyanova talking to journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dr. Nadezhda Buyanova, pediatrician:
"I would like people, everyone, to be happy, to have happy families. But unfortunately, as they say, there is no heaven on earth. The world is not perfect. I wish it was because people have so many problems in life, so many different illnesses that need to be fought, new methods of treatment need to be found."
4. Journalists talking to Buyanova
5. Buyanova’s supporters in court
6. Photo of Buyanova’s photo on a supporter’s t-shirt
7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Leonid Solovyev, Buyanova’s lawyer:
"I am not surprised by the result announced today. I am surprised by the way it happened. Even if we accept, let’s say, in good faith the fact that the accusations against Nadezhda are true, everything that is written there is true. If we accept even this fact, all the same, five and a half years (of prison) for a few phrases to a woman, an elderly, honored person in Russia with such a profession, I think that this is beyond the pale."
8. People outside the court
STORYLINE:
A doctor accused of criticizing Russia’s fighting in Ukraine in front of a patient was convicted Tuesday of spreading false information about the Russian military and sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison, part of an unrelenting Kremlin crackdown on dissent.
Dr. Nadezhda Buyanova, 68, was arrested in February after Anastasia Akinshina, the mother of one of her patients, reported the pediatrician to authorities.
Akinshina alleged that Buyanova told her and her son that his father, a Russian soldier who was killed in Ukraine, was a legitimate target for Kyiv’s troops and had blamed Moscow for the conflict.
A video of the outraged Akinshina complaining about Buyanova was widely publicized, and chief of Russia’s Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin personally demanded a criminal case be brought against the doctor.
Buyanova, who was born in western Ukraine, denied the accusation, insisting she never said what she was accused of saying.
In a tearful closing statement last week, she had urged the court to acquit her.
Her defense argued that the prosecution failed to present evidence that the purported conversation took place, including any recordings of it, and alleged that her accuser fabricated the story out of animosity toward Ukrainians, according to the independent news site Mediazona, which reported all of the hearings in the trial.
In her closing statement to the court, Buyanova said it was “painful” to read the accusations in the indictment, and broke down.
“A doctor, especially a paediatrician, is not capable of wishing harm to a child, his mother, or traumatizing the child’s psyche. Only a monster is capable of this — and of the words that I allegedly said to them,” Mediazona quoted her as saying.
“Spreading false information” about the army has been a criminal offense since March 2022, when Russia adopted a series of laws prohibiting any public expression about the fighting that deviated from the official narrative.
Authorities started actively using them against critics and protesters.
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