Sergei Mitrokhin demands from Alexander Bastrykin, head
of the Investigation Committee, to file a criminal case on
the abduction and tortures of Leonid Razvozzhayev, Assistant
of oppositional Duma MP Ilya Ponomaryov. (Ed. Leonid Razvozhayaev
together with Sergei Udaltsov were accused of preparing a
coup detat in Russia with the help of Georgian money after
a notorious film The Anatomy of Protest-2 picturing all the
opposition figures as criminals). Mitrokhin insists that the
criminal case should be opened in accordance with three articles
of the Criminal Code abduction (Article 126), threat of
murder or grievous bodily harm (Article 119) and compulsion
of evidence (Article 302).
Mitrokhin also applied to Sergei Kudneyev, Public Prosecutor
of Moscow, demanding to immediately explain the circumstances
of the detention of Leonid Razvozzhayev and how it was announced
Rozvozzhayaev had voluntarily admitted his guilt and surrendered.
In his letter to the head of the Investigation Committee Sergei
Mitrokhin quoted information that Valery Borschyov, renowned
human rights activist, member of the Moscow Public Monitoring
Commission and member of YABLOKO Bureau, had obtained from
Leonid Razvozzhayev. Yesterday night Valery Borschyov and
other human rights activists visited the Lefortovo jail and
managed to talk to Razvozzhaev.
Leonid Razvozzhaev said that he had been abducted by unknown
persons in Kiev and brought to Russia in a minibus. The kidnappers
used psychological pressure and threats so that to force Razvozzhayev
to write a confession. He was threatened by murder of his
family and was deprived of food and sleep. "Such actions
can not be described otherwise than torture," Mitrokhin
writes in his application. Only after Razvozzhayev had signed
a confession was he handed to the Investigation Committee.
However, he did not make any confession of a crime to the
Investigation Committee.
Sergei Mitrokhin also demands from Sergei Kundeyev, Public
Prosecutor of Moscow, to check the facts given by human rights
activists, and, due to a large public interest to the case,
to immediately give answers to the following questions:
- How and where was Leonid Razvozzhayev detained? How his
voluntarily acknowledgement of his guilt and surrender can
be confirmed?
- Where and when did Leonid Razvozzhayev announce his voluntary
surrender reported by the Investigation Committee? In what
premises and when did Razvozzhayev write a confession, if
it was done in writing? If the confession was made orally,
then what official made a report on this?
See also:
Human
Rights
YABLOKO
Against Broadening of Proxies of Secret Services
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