Re: Dmitry Bogatov arrested in Moscow

[Al Nikolov <clown@debian.org>]

В Ср, 12/04/2017 в 15:13 +0200, Jérémy Bobbio пишет:

> Are you saying Debian members should not try to contact his lawyer to
> learn more about the case and their defense strategy? And ask them if
> they think there's something we can to do help?

Lawyers won't share any significant details to bystanders more than they
do for the press.

This post and some links in it is basically all my source of information
(in Russian):

https://www.openrussia.org/notes/708374/

No, it's by no means authoritative. Yes, I believe the analysis:

Someone has been making posts, quite extreme to my taste, apparently
using Tor, before and after Dmitry's arrest and seizure, using the same
account on sysadmins.ru forum, from multiple different IP addresses. One
of the addresses found to be conveniently located in Moscow. Dmitry has
an alibi at least in regards to many these posts (doing shopping,
sitting in jail). That's it.

Because I lived in that country for 40 years, I also believe in 1)
incompetence of the investigator, who doesn't even know the formal law
and fails to make up accusations serious enough to request an arrest
until the trial; 2) skewed investigator, who turns the Tor relay
maintained by Dmitry into an additional evidence of his malicious
intentions; 3) corrupted investigator and court, who serve the needs of
the regime currently facing mass protests.

Under these circumstances, shall Debian hold neutrality in politics, it
should not make any public statements but just to mention Dmitry's
objective situation (imprisoned under investigation) and may be send him
a word of moral support in private (if my beliefs above make sense).

I'd back up Martin on that: Debian can do nothing real for Dmitry.

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