On Saturday activists of the YABLOKO held a picket in support
of YABLOKOs Suren Gazoryan facing several years of imprisonment
for standing up against Governor Tkachyovs unlawful seizure
of public lands in the Black Sea Coast.
About 15 people participated in the picket in Kazan. Nailya
Biktimirova, representating of the Social-Ecological Union,
said that this summer she met with Gazaryan in Moscow at the
award ceremony of the Presidential Council for Civil Society
Development and Human Rights. At that time Gazoryan was sentenced
to three years of probation for graffiti and damaging of
the fence around Governors cottage built on public land.
However, a new case against Gazaryan may lead to his imprisonment,
as accordikng to the investigators, YABLOKOs activist had
allegedly threatened to kill the three guards of the so-called
Putins Palace.
"I think any environmental activist may be imprisoned
now, as the authorities have been trying to defend the territory
they did not have any right to sale and develop, said Naila
Biktimirova.
Alexander Titov, leader of the youth YABLOKO in the Republic
of Tatarstan, organiser of the picket and future lawyer, believes
the Gazaryans case is purely political: "From my point
of view, this is abuse of law. If all environmentalists are
sent to prison, than nothing will remain of nature any more"
Based
on the article in Vechernyaya Kazan
See also:
Regional
and Local Elections 2012
The authorities want
to put YABLOKOs candidate to the Mayor of Krymsk into prison.
Press Release, November 23, 2012.
A second
action in support of Vladimir Putin takes place in front the
Krasnodar office of the YABLOKO party. Press Release, November
22, 2012.
On YABLOKOs initiative
the Congress of European liberals condemned reprisals against
Russian opposition. Press Release, November 10, 2012
On reprisals
against YABLOKO activists and dissenters in Russia
Urgency Resolution submitted by the YABLOKO party and adopted
by ALDE Congress on November 9, 2012
Protection
of Environment
Human
Rights
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