THE REGIONAL COURT OF KALUGA HAS SENTENCED TO RELEASE DMITRY NEVEROVSKY FROM CUSTODY

Kaluga -- Moscow, April 18, 2000 - Today the Regional Court of Kaluga (the Collegium including the President Gusev, the judges Teryan and Kochetov) has sentenced to substitute the preventive measures in respect of Neverovsky - the confinement - by the written undertaking not to leave the place. Meanwhile, the decision of the Obninsk City Court of March 3, 2000 to remit the case for further examination has been confirmed. The liberation of Dmitry Neverovsky from the regional prison of Kaluga is expected tomorrow, April 19, about 10 a.m. The address of the prison: ul. Nikolo-Kazinskaya 110, Kaluga.

Dmitry Neverovsky, a member of the Antimilitarist Radical Association (ARA), on November 25, 1999 was sentenced by the Obninsk City Court to two years of imprisonment according to Art. 328.1 of the Russian Criminal Code ("evading the military service") because he conscientiously objected to protest against the Chechen war, despite the fact that the Art. 59.3 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation guarantees to all the citizens of Russia the right to conscientiously object and the right to perform the alternative civilian service instead of the military service. On February 2000 the Regional Court of Kaluga recalled this verdict and the case was remitted for a new examination in the Obninsk City Court. On March 3 the Obninsk City Court decided to remit the case for further examination, having confirmed the preventive measures - the confinement. The Council for the defence (the lawyer David Slitinsky, the ARA Secretary Nikolay Khramov and Tatiana Kotlyar, the mother of Neverovsky) appealed against this

decision to the Regional Court of Kaluga.