Receipt of the observations / request for an extension of time from JVA Moabit (Moabit prison) of 12.05.2026
On 27.05.2026 I received the JVA Moabit letter of 12.05.2026 in case 595 StVK 68/26 Vollz. In it, JVA Moabit requested an extension of time from the Landgericht Berlin I (Berlin Regional Court I) to process the court’s request for observations. It explained that the prisoner’s personal file, including earlier volumes, was not yet available because it remained at JVA Heidering (Heidering prison), where I had previously been held, and had only just been requested.
At the same time, JVA Moabit had already commented on the merits and rejected both the urgency I asserted and the alleged violation of my entitlement to resocialisation. It took the view that rehabilitative work could take place in both open and closed prison conditions; neither the refusal of relaxations nor the failure to place me in open conditions caused me any disadvantage relevant to fundamental rights. It concluded by requesting an extension until the end of calendar week 22.
(Annex 123_F2)
Commentary — assessment by Dmitry Bagrash
This letter is particularly important because JVA Moabit states, on the one hand, that it cannot yet deal with the case properly without the prisoner’s personal file, but, on the other, already rejects the urgency and fundamental-rights relevance of my applications in blanket terms. In my view, this confirms that the negative stance towards open conditions and relaxations of prison conditions was not based on a fully examined factual foundation. It also documents that even JVA Moabit regarded the case file as incomplete.
Document provenance
Annex 123_F2 (JVA Moabit letter, 12.05.2026, request for an extension of time) (scanned original — limited OCR quality; full-text reproduction will follow after improved digitisation): Anlage123_F2.pdf