A YEAR AFTER: MAIN VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRIMEA PART 4 ‘Kostenko’s Case’ The charge: Intentional inU iction of bodily harm on the grounds of political, ideological, racial, eth- nic or religious hatred or enmity or hatred or hos- tility toward a social group (part 2, Art. 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), punish- ment: Up to two years in prison. The person arrested: Alexander Kostenko was ar- rested on February 5, 2105. The Kostenko’s case is unprecedented. He is ac- cused of involvement in the events that took place as early as in February 2014, and, what is more, not Pictured: Alexander Kostenko even in the Crimea but in Kyiv. Kostenko himself is a Euromaidan activist. Alexander Kostenko was arrested on February 5 in Simferopol, but he was not taken to the police station until the following day. He claims that the FSB had spent the night torturing him to get his confession. Investigators believe that Kostenko, ‘with a sense of ideological hatred and hostility to the employees of the Department of the Ministry of the Interior’, threw ‘10x10x12 cm stones (paving stones)’ aiming them at warrant o7 cer V.V. Polienko, who was standing in the cordon. The investigators insist that this led to injuries of an employ- ee of the Crimean Berkut Unit ‘in the form of a large hematoma in the middle and lower thirds of the left shoulder’. It remains unknown how the investigators from Simferopol were able to investigate the events that had taken place in Kyiv a year earlier. Other activists who were on Maidan in Kyiv with Kostenko argued that Kostenko could not throw the stones because at that time was not on the street but in a build- ing where he helped the wounded. Kostenko wrote an open letter in which he reported being regularly tortured. Ko- stenko’s lawyer also conR rms that the arrested people were tortured. Bare wires were pushed under his nails, and he was tortured with electric current. He has noticeable bruises on his body, his arm and R ngers have been broken. Kostenko is now subject to tortures in the pre-trial detention center, he is being forced to refuse the services of his attorney and give evidence against other Ukrainian ac- tivists of Euromaidan. 79