Activists and leaders of the YABLOKO party participated in
the action in memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasiya
Baburova murdered a year ago.
Party leader Sergei Mitrokhin and member of the Political
Committee Sergei Kovalyov participated in the march along
Petrovsky Boulevard. Grigory Yavlinsky laid flowers to the
place where Markelov and Baburova were killed and came to
the picket by the Griboyedov monument where the march ended.
YABLOKO’s activists noted that they managed to escape mass-scale
police reprisals only due to interference of Russia’s Ombudsman
Vladimir Lukin who came to Petrovsky Boulevard.
At present YABLOKO’s activists are trying to prevent the
second wave of arrests, provoked by the police who tore the
megaphone from the speakers at the picket.
See also:
Attitude
to human rights activists as a criterion of a law governed
state. Statement
of the YABLOKO party, January 19, 2010
Human
Rights
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