On December 5, an unsanctioned march against
elimination by the authorities of the Utrish national park
took place in Krasnodar. The General Affairs Department of
Presidential Administration plans to build a recreation complex
in the national park.
The police detained YABLOKO’s activist Andrei Rudomakha,
organizer of the march in defence of the Utrish national park
and head of the Ecological Watch in the Northern Caucasus,
and YABLOKO’s activist Suren Gazaryan.
The activists were taken to the medical expertise first under
the pretext that they were drunk. However, the expertise did
not confirm this.
Despite of this both the activists had to spend a night in
the police department.
Gazaryan is facing 15 days of arrest for “non-obeying the
lawful demands”.
Rudomakha is accused of organizing an unsanctioned action.
However, Rudomakha applied for a permission to conduct a rally
and a march, but the bureaucrats decided not to give their
permission for the rally as it “could harm the architectural
monuments” at the square planned for the rally. However, the
officials did not object against a march, and the organizers
decided to reduce the action to a march only.
YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin expressed his indignation
with the arrest of the activists. He confirmed the intention
of the party to conduct a rally and a march under environmental
protection slogans in the centre of Krasnodar next Sunday,
December 12. Mitrokhin will personally participate in the
action.
See also:
Protection
of Environment
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