Public statement before the two-thirds hearing

OPEN STATEMENT — Public statement on the situation before the hearing on 24 June 2026

JVA Heidering / Großbeeren, 11 June 2026 — Annex 126_F2. Addressed to: Landgericht Berlin I (case reference 589 StVK 86/26), the press, members of the Deutscher Bundestag (German federal parliament) and Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus (Berlin House of Representatives), national and international human-rights organisations.

I. Freedom is not payment for silence

The sentence enforcement chamber (Strafvollstreckungskammer, EWA) unequivocally informed me in its written observations that my early release is directly linked to my silence and my abandonment of the further struggle for legal rehabilitation.

I hereby declare publicly and unequivocally: under no circumstances will I abandon my struggle for legal rehabilitation. A court that demands silence from a convicted person thereby shows that it fears the public rather than the law.

II. What I announced in my final statement — and continue to stand by

In my final statement before the Landgericht Berlin, I declared that my first destination after release would be the Bundestag. There I will initiate an independent parliamentary inquiry into the serious failure of the Berlin justice system and security authorities in dealing with Russian intelligence operations in Europe — based on the evidence in my proceedings. Under no circumstances will I give up on initiating this inquiry.

III. Institutional pressure — a documented chain of events

• The judgmentThe LG Berlin judgment of 22.07.2024 initially contained no list of the provisions applied (§ 260 Abs. 5 StPO). The list was added only on 30.07.2025 — 373 days later and after the BGH decision. of 22.07.2024 did not list the legal provisions applied and was subsequently amended a year later — after the BGH decision.
• My access to the Urkundsbeamten (court registry officer who records procedural declarations)Urkundsbeamter der Geschäftsstelle (UKB) — the registry officer before whom a prisoner without legal assistance can declare a legal remedy orally for the record. was systematically blocked for months, as evidenced by ten declarations in lieu of an oath (eidesstattliche Erklärungen).
• My application to discharge the court-appointed defence counsel (Entpflichtung des Pflichtverteidigers) has remained undecided since 17.12.2024.
• The constitutional complaint (2 BvR 199/26) was not accepted for decision on 13.04.2026.
• On 27.04.2026 I simultaneously received the expulsion order (Ausweisungsverfügung) from the Landesamt für Einwanderung (State Office for Immigration) and the sentence and integration plan — an obviously coordinated course of action.
• The summons to the hearing on 24.06.2026 was served on me — without the observations of the Generalstaatsanwaltschaft (Prosecutor General’s Office), which opposed my release.

IV. My personal situation — facts about my conduct in prison

Throughout my imprisonment I have committed no rule violations, have stable and verifiable social ties in Germany, and have a job available after my release. I have a minor son whose welfare and family relationship constitute a substantial interest deserving protection. None of these circumstances is adequately taken into account in the sentence enforcement chamber’s negative prognosis.

V. Pavlo S. — a specific threat and a documented pattern

On the day the judgment was pronounced in July 2024, a fellow prisoner named Pavlo S. publicly accused me of paedophilia and called for me to be killed in the presence of JVA Moabit (Moabit prison) officers and at least 50 other prisoners. I reported this to the JVA social service that same day. For ten days I was denied access to the Urkundsbeamten; only after threatening a hunger strike did I succeed in filing a criminal complaint with the prosecution service. No protective measures followed. Pavlo S. then continued working on my floor for another nine months.

On 8 June 2026 I received the summons to the court hearing on 24.06.2026. On 10 June 2026 I was transferred to another department of JVA Heidering — the department where Pavlo S. works at a table five metres away from me.

All documented evidence of the events described is in my possession and will be provided to journalists on request.

I expressly declare: I do not plan to take my own life. Nor do I plan any violence against Pavlo S.. This declaration is not a plea for help. It is a document. It records what is happening — so that no one can later say they did not know.