Liberal International
to discuss arbitrary actions of Moscow police in breaking YABLOKO's
picket
Press Release
June 11, 2010
YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin expressed his indignation
with police breaking of YABLOKO’s one-person picket and arresting
the activists protesting against the amendments to the law
on the Federal Security Service (former KGB) by the Russian
parliament building. No permission or coordination with authorities
is required for conducting one-person pickets in accordance
with the Russian law. Nevertheless the picket was brutally
broken and the activists were arrested.
Mitrokhin said that actions by police officers who arrested
the activist holding the placard, as well as three other activists
who were standing by were a rude violation of the Constitution
and the law “On assemblies, meetings, demonstrations and pickets”.
YABLOKO’s leader is going to speak about this at the Liberal
International Executive Committee meeting which is taking
place in Berlin. He will speak to the Liberal International
about braking of peaceful rally in Moscow on May 31.
Action against introduction of amendments on the law on the
Federal Security Service (the former KGB), which YABLOKO attempted
to hold today by the building of the State Duma (the Russian
Parliament) was brutally broken by police. First Deputy Chair
of the Moscow YABLOKO Galina Mikhalyova was standing in a
one-person picket, and three activists of the party were waiting
for their turn to replace her, were all arrested by police
and taken to the local police department. Two activists are
still in the police department.
