YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin who is now in Novosibirsk
on a working visit participated in a series of pickets in
support of the Suren Gazaryan and Viktor Dutlov. Young activists
also joined the action in Novosibirsk.
Solidarity actions with the detained environmentalists took
place all over Russia. In Moscow, the police detained dozens
of picketers, including four members of YABLOKO Galina Mikhalyova,
deputy head of the Moscow branch of YABLOKO, and activists
Maya Zavyalova, Gleb Sitnikov and Oleg Rumyantsev.
On March 14 Suren Gazaryan, environmentalist and YABLOKO
member, and Viktor Dutlov, lawyer, YABLOKO member and activist
of the North Caucasus Environmental Watch, detained by the
country cottage of Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Tkachyov
in Tuapse, got ten days of administrative arrest for non-obeying
to the lawful orders of police. The judge refused to call
the witnesses of the defence, as well as to consider audio
and video recordings proving innocence of Gazaryan and Dutlov.
YABLOKO is outraged by political persecution of its members.
On March 16, party activists conducted a series of pickets
by Representation of the Krasnodar Territory in Moscow. YABLOKO
leader Sergei Mitrokhin also participated in this action.
On March 15 Nikolai Rybakov, Executive Director of the Bellona
centre for protection of environmental and human rights, spoke
at the meeting of the Presidential Council for Civil Society
and Human Rights Development of. His speech was devoted to
persecution of environmental activists. He also touched upon
the problem of unlawful seizure of forest lands and the Black
Sea coast, and cutting of relict pines under construction
of a country cottage for Alexander Tkachyov, Governor of the
Krasnodar Territory. Public campaign against these unlawful
actions gave rise to persecution of environmentalists initiated
by the Governor.
President Medvedev informed the participants of the meeting
that he was going to order to the Public Prosecutor General
to conduct investigation in view of these facts.
Photo: Picket in Tver. Anton Stamplevsky,
head of YABLOKO branch in Tver
Photo: Picket in Izhevsk. Sofia Rusova.
See also:
Protection
of Environment
Environmentalist
Suren Gazaryan and lawyer Viktor Dutlov get ten days of imprisonment
on a framed-up case. Press Release, March 14, 2012
Charges
brought against Eugeny Vitishko, YABLOKO candidate to the
State Duma
YABLOKO
campaign unfairly targeted
Yabloko
demands investigation of unlawful detention of its activists
Press
conference Black Sea Palaces and Their Hosts
Are
Prisoners of Conscience Only in Moscow?
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