| YABLOKO’s rally in Aksay, the Rostov region, was conducted
despite counteraction of the authorities.
Before the action the police notified the organizers of the
rally about administration’s ban on the rally, the police
told that all the participants would be detained. “This is
completely unlawful. The Adminstration has no right to ban
the rally. The authorities can only offer a different place
for conducting the action,” YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin
said.
Also someone threw leaflets that people are prohibited to
come to the park where the rally had to due to “sanitary measures
against insects and hazardous effect of this pharmaceuticals
on people”. This was done in the morning on the threashold
of the rally. In spite f all of this the rally gathered about
100 people.
The rally was held on the day of one year anniversary since
the murder of Dmitry Chudakov, chief of the Nizhny Novgorod
special police forces and his family, including his child.
However, instead of a proper investigation of this terrible
murder a resident of the Rostov region Alexei Serenko was
“appointed” to be the murderer. YABLOKO’s activists decided
to hold a rally in Aksai "For honest justice", demanding
a new investigation and capture the real killers.
However, the rally was held without any arrests. The participants
expressed their protest against this fabricated criminal case.
Leader of the Rostov branch of YABLOKO Alexander Shcherbakov
said that the struggle would continue. "It's a shame
for the government that the people who have to protect us
from criminals, have turned into an instrument in the hands
of criminals. It is necessary to join our efforts in fight
against lawlessness and arbitrary rule, because this can affect
everyone," Sergei Mitrokhin said at the rally.
He also called the citizens to support the family of Alexei
Serenko. Then the participants of the rally came to place
of murder of the Chudakovs, where they paid tribute to their
memory with minute’s silence, laid flowers and lit candles.
See also:
Freedom
of Assembly
Human
Rights
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