(Moscow, May 14, 1997) - The complaint of Vadim Hesse, member of ARA secretariat, to illegal actions undertaken by military enlistment commission of Noginsk district has been recognized as "unfounded" by the decision of Noginsk civilian court.

On October 24, 1995 the military enlistment commission of Noginsk district had taken decision to draft Vadim Hesse to military service, in spite of his requesting the alternative civilian service. Being not agree with that decision, he did not arrived to the recruitment point. The criminal suite on accusation in "evading the regular draft to the military service" had been opened then against Hesse. Before the trial, he spent 40 days in prison. At that time he was proclaimed a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International who demanded his immediate release. On May 13, 1996 Vadim Hesse was fully justified by the Noginsk court because of "absence the fact of crime". It was stated in the verdict of judge Elena Raskevich: "Court recognizes the Hesse's right to replace military service by the alternative civilian service".

At the same time, there was another process developing in the same Noginsk court: judge A. Murzina was examining the civilian complaint against illegal decision of military enlistment commission, submitted by Vadim Hesse several hours before his arrest. At that time, decision on the civilian suite had been postponed until the verdict on the criminal case would be passed. On May 14, 1997, in one year after justification verdict on the criminal suite, the decision has been finally passed. The complaint was refused.

In this context Vadim Hesse, member of ARA secretariat, made following declaration:

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The double-standard policy has been implemented in Noginsk court. Two decisions of the same court - both in legal force and contradicting each other - demonstrate the full impossibility of the State to solve the problem. That's why today - as never before - too much depends from the efforts of citizens, efforts aimed on the soonest military reform and - first of all - on introduction the institution of legal conscientious objection. This is exactly the goal of the Anti-militarist Radical Association which it is consequently fighting for.>>