July 3 marks seven years since the death of an outstanding
journalist and fighter against corruption Yuri Schekochikhin
On this day the Russian United Democratic Party YABLOKO considers
it necessary to remind to Russia’s leadership that the circumstances
of the death of Yuri Schekochikhin have not been determined.
The decision on termination of the investigation adopted
by the Investigation Committee of the Public Prosecutor’s
Office in 2009 demonstrates inability or lack of desire of
the present Russian state to conduct a full-fledged investigation.
The law enforcement has not produced convincing answers on
the questions from Yuri’s relatives, colleagues and concerned
citizens for these seven years. In particular,
- not all the witnesses have been interrogated, however,
testimony from some of them could have cleared up the circumstances
of the tragedy;
- the testimonies of the doctors who examined Yuri demonstrate
unexplained contradictions;
- the fact of disappearance of medical documents forwarded
from the hospital to the Public Prosecutor’s Office in 2003
has not been investigated and the documents have not been
found.
We can not rule out that some top officials may be interacting
the investigation of the cause of death of Yuri Schekochikhin.
We demand from the President of Russia to raise before the
Public Prosecutor and the Investigation Committee the issue
of canceling decision on closing the criminal case on the
death of Yuri Schekochikhin.
Sergei Mitrokhin,
Chair of the YABLOKO party
See also:
Journalist and YABLOKO
member Yuri Schekochikhin would have turned 60 today. Grigory
Yavlinsky’s letter to Vsevolod Bogdanov, Chair of Russia’s
Journalists Union. June 9, 2010
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