YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin applied to Anatoly Yakunin,
head of the Moscow interior, demanding to conduct official
investigation of the lawfulness of policemen’s actions during
detention of Garry Kasparov, Russian opposition figure and
ex World Chess Champion, by Khamovnichesky court during the
Pussy Riot trial.
In his appeal Mitrokhin refers to the documentary
‘The Term’.
The authors of the documentary filmed the detention of the
ex World Chess Champion. "Obviously, the police had no
reasons to arrest Garry Kasparov," Mitrokhin wrote in
the letter. Indeed, during a few seconds before his arrest
Garry Kasparov was talking to reporters and was not breaking
the law.
Garry Kasparov was detained by Khamovnichesky in Moscow on
August17 during the hearing of the court verdict on the controversial
action by punk band Pussy Riot at the Christ the Savior Cathedral.
After detaining Kasparov, the Press Service of the Moscow
Interior Department informed journalists that Kasparov had
bitten the hand of a police officer during the detention.
The victim allegedly had to seek help from doctors, who certified
his hand injury.
In his letter YABLOKO leader also responded to the initiative
of Anton Tsvetkov, head of public organization "Russian
Officers", who had proposed to introduce criminal liability
for non-obeying police. According to Mitrokhin, another measure
should be introduced toughening the liability for policemen
for lying.
"First of all police officers must be punished for lying.
In can tell that when I or my colleagues were brought to a
police department there was not a single case when policemen
did not use lies to achieve their goals. Therefore it is necessary
to introduce a very large penalty for policemen for lying
with their subsequent disqualification from the service,"
Mitrokhin told to Interfax on Tuesday.
See also:
Human
rights
Grigory
Yavlinsky on the Pussy Riot case. Grigory
Yavlinsky’s Live Journal, August 17, 2012
Yabloko
condemns controversial Pussy Riot Trial. LI News Bulletin,
Issue 294, August 2, 2012
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