| Press-conference of the ecologists who served their imprisonment
sentences in Tuapse prison for conducting a public inspection
of the country cottage of Governor of Kransodar Area Alexander
Tkacyov will be held in YABLOKO’s office tomorrow on March
10.
“The Krasnodar prisoners of conscience” – Eugeny Vitushko,
leader of the Tuapse YABLOKO and Suren Gazaryan, member of
YABLOKO, will tell about the unlawful construction of a recreation
complex for Governor Tkachoyv in the relict pin forest protected
by the state, as well as other complexes and palaces unlawfully
constructed at the Black Sea coast of the Krasnodar Area.
Vitishko spent 10 days in jail and was released today. He
was on hunger strike for the last eight days in prison protesting
against the imprisonment as well as violation of human rights
in the prison.
YABLOKO’s activists say that imprisonment of the leader YABLOKO’s
branch in Tuapse demonstrated the desire of the local authorities
to press one of the leaders of environmentalists in the region.
YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin will also participate in
the press-conference.
The conference “Black Sea Palaces and Their Hosts” will begin
at 2 p.m.
Address: Tretyakovskaya or Novokuznetskaya metro stations,
ul.Pyatnitskaya 31/2 bldg 2.
Accreditation at
Tel: +7 495 780 30 19
+7 903 270 29 02 (Igor Yakovlev)
See also:
Human
Rights
Protection
of Environment
Are Prisoners
of Conscience Only in Moscow? Boris Vishnevsky’s blog at
the Ekho Moskvy web-site. March 5, 2011
YABLOKO’s
activists get imprisonment verdicts, Press Release, February
28, 2011
WWF
demands from the Interior Minister to investigate the circumstances
of the arrest of ecologists by Governor’s dacha. Press Release,
March 4, 2011.
Young
YABLOKO activists hang a banner “Freedom to Political
Prisoners!” opposite of the Kremlin.
Press Release, March 3, 2011.
Friendly
Oligarch Buys 'Putin' Palace . The Moscow Times, March 4,
2011.
YABLOKO
- Aktivisten inhaftiert. Liberales Forum. Redaktion,
28.02.2011
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