At present YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin is in Public Prosecutor’s
office in Khimki filing an application of unlawful actions
by the police.
The police confiscated mobile phones of nine detained ecologists
and journalists, thus depriving them of an opportunity to
get in touch with lawyers and get a legal consultation.
The police officer on duty told Mitrokhin that confiscation
of mobile phones was lawful, and the activists are kept in
the wards. The police issued protocols of administrative violation
(disobeying the police orders) against them, which can involve
such punishment as 15 days of arrest. The leader of the defenders
of the Khimki Forest Yevgenia Chirikova (who is one of the
nine detained ecologists) managed to tell Mitrokhin that the
policemen referred to an order of the Moscow Region Governor
Boris Gromov who “had prohibited any persons to appear in
the Forest”.
Sergei Mitrokhin is going to obtain Public Prosecutor’s immediate
reaction to the developments.
See also:
Protection
of Environment
Human
Rights
Police
breaks into ecologists’ camp. Press Release. July 28, 2010
Public
hearings on the Khimki Forest postponed. Press Release. July
28, 2010.
Off with your
hands from the defenders of the Khimki Forest! Statement by
the YABLOKO party. July 23, 2010
Ecologists
block the driver who attacked the leader of the Movement in
Protection of the Khimki Forest. Press Release. July 19, 2010
In protection
of the Khimki Forest and its defenders. Statement by the YABLOKO
party. July 17, 2010.
Destruction of nature
has been accelerating. Statement by the YABLOKO party on the
threashold of the World Environment Day. June 4, 2010
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