Yury Shutov got a tape with a casual conversation of Sobchak with a French intelligence officer.
16 Facts About Yury Shutov
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When Yury Shutov discovered the "robbers" in his apartment, they broke his skull with a hammer.
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Yury Shutov published a book about his experience of working in the city administration.
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On March 31,1992, Yury Shutov was arrested on fabricated charges of preparing an assassination of Azerbaijan's president Abulfaz Elchibey.
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Yury Shutov was released only in 1993 and found not guilty by a court in 1996.
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On December 20,1998 Yury Shutov was elected deputy of the Saint Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
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Yury Shutov alleged in an article that Putin got hold of a file with compromising KGB materials on Sobchak, at the time when Putin worked as the KGB's overseer of Leningrad State University.
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On February 16,1999, Yury Shutov was stripped of parliamentary immunity and arrested on fabricated charges of murdering prominent Russian politicians Mikhail Manevich and Galina Starovoitova.
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Yury Shutov lost an eye and half of his hearing as a result.
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Yury Shutov served his sentence in White Swan maximal security prison in the Perm Region where he was not provided with a wheelchair and had to move around by crawling.
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Yury Shutov complained of lack of adequate medical care throughout his detention and lack of a wheelchair in prison.
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Also Mr Yury Shutov alleged that sentencing him to lifetime imprisonment while he was not present in the courtroom amounts to inhuman treatment.
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Yury Shutov complains of "unlawful composition of the court in view of the lack of the lay judges' credentials and lack of grounds for their participation in the proceedings after abolition of the institution of lay judges in Russia; of lack of public hearing in view of the court proceedings in a remand prison".
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Yury Shutov alleges that his absence from the courtroom was not remedied by the presence of his legal counsel as the court ignored or dismissed his requests, "pressured the counsel by applying for withdrawal of their license, stripped them of all electronic devices crucial for their work and effectively eliminated the possibility to consult with their clients by holding almost daily hearings".
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Yury Shutov complains under the same provision that the "trial court was biased, ignored his requests, and that the appeal court failed to duly consider his appeals".
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Yury Shutov complains under Article 18 of ECHR that the real reason for his arrest was political persecution.