Serviceman Serhiy Hniezdilov, who returned to service after publicly deserting his unit, has filed complaints with the Constitutional Court of Ukraine. The reason is the discriminatory norms of the Criminal Procedure Code on the lack of alternative preventive measures for servicemen. Hniezdilov wrote about this on Instagram, reports UNN.
I am appealing to the Constitutional Court with constitutional complaints due to the discriminatory norms of the Criminal Procedure Code on the lack of alternative preventive measures for servicemen. According to these legal norms, I was held without alternatives in the guardhouse, and thousands of other servicemen under various articles (no, not only unauthorized abandonment of a unit or desertion stretched on the globe) continue to be behind bars while the investigation of their possible crime or pre-trial investigation is ongoing
He noted that he filed the first complaint regarding Part 8 of Article 176 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which provides for an exclusive preventive measure for servicemen during martial law - detention.
"While alternative preventive measures can be applied to other suspects," Hniezdilov adds.
He filed the second complaint regarding paragraph 8 of Part 4 of Article 183 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which equates servicemen with state traitors, terrorists, criminals against peace and criminal organizations and gives judges the right not to determine the amount of bail.
"I appeal to the people's deputies who read this post: amend the Criminal Procedure Code, remove discriminatory norms. It is in your power. This will restore justice in thousands of cases involving servicemen," the military man notes.
Recall
In October last year, the SBI detained serviceman Serhiy Hniezdilov of the 56th Motorized Infantry Brigade, who publicly announced that he had left the military unit. At the same time, he was declared a suspect in desertion.
In January, the Babushkinskyi District Court of Dnipro granted the petition to release serviceman Serhiy Hniezdilov from criminal liability. The serviceman returned to service in the 56th Separate Mariupol Motorized Infantry Brigade, where he had served before.
