Kaliningrad Lawyer Sentenced to 12 Years for Treason
Maria Bonzler, a Kaliningrad-based lawyer, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for treason after being accused by the FSB of passing information about her clients to foreign intelligence agencies. She continued defending political and Ukrainian clients until her arrest and faced repeated medical care denials while in pre-trial detention.
Consensus
- Maria Bonzler was sentenced to 12 years in prison
- She was accused of treason by the FSB
- She defended political prisoners and Ukrainians
- She worked on cases that other lawyers avoided
- She had a severe hypertensive heart disease with a high stroke risk
- She faced repeated denials of medical care during pre-trial detention
- She refused to give testimony against a colleague in exchange for a reduced sentence
- She had been defending conscripts' rights for over 30 years
- The case was reported by Sever.Realii
Points of divergence
- She is 66 years old — tg_severrealii
- She is 65 years old — tg_currenttime
- She is 65 years old — tg_idelrealii
- She is 66 years old — tg_radiosvoboda
Coverage (6 sources)
- Until her arrest she continued to work on such "bad" cases that other lawyers feared to touch: she defended political figures, Ukrainians — Север.Реалии
- Kaliningrad lawyer Maria Bonczler sentenced on treason case. — Север.Реалии
- Until her arrest she continued to work on such "bad" cases that other lawyers feared to touch: political defense, defense of Ukrainians — Настоящее Время
- Until her arrest, she continued to work on such "bad" cases that other lawyers feared to touch: she defended political figures, Ukrainians — Idel.Реалии
- Until her arrest she continued to work on such "unpleasant" cases that other lawyers feared to touch: political defense, defense of Ukrainians. — Радио Свобода
- Until her arrest she continued to work on such "bad" cases that other lawyers feared to touch: she defended political figures, Ukrainians — Север.Реалии