Re: Dmitry Bogatov arrested in Moscow

[Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org>]

On 12/04/2017 12:53, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org> [2017-04-12 12:31 +0200]:
>> Has anyone been in touch with his lawyer(s)? It would be
>> worthwhile to know what they think could be useful from Debian.
>> A public support statement could give wider media exposure, maybe
>> some international pressure. But we shouldn't do this without an
>> agreement from Dmitry and his legal counsel. It depends on their
>> defense strategy.
> 
> To be honest, I think we should not expose the project here. We
> don't know the exact accusations and we really ought not just offer
> to be a witness without being asked.
> 
> While I personally would like to believe that Dimitri is the good
> guy and the Russian officials the villains, I have no first-hand
> information to back this up, and I don't think the project does
> either.
> 

I concur.

His arrest is not linked to his Debian activities (or at least, does not
look like it) and we are not tooled to help him in such complex cases. Paying
a random lawyer is not going to help him, by looking at how the case started.
Plus, we do not have accurate information for now. There are other projects
which are used to help activists around the world (especially for political
trials). I am thinking about EFF and Amnesty International for example, but
maybe there are better suited organizations for this case. If specialized
organizations are unable to help him, I fear Debian on its own will not be
more useful to him.

-- 
Mehdi

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