YABLOKO Bureau member conducted picket in support of Vitishko and Gazaryan
Press Release, 26.03.2014
YABLOKO’s Bureau member, the Green Russia faction’s activist Dmitry Rybakov conducted a series of one-person pickets in support of the ecologists Evgeny Vitishko and Suren Gazaryan in Petrozavodsk, on March 25.
Evgeny Vitishko and Suren Gazaryan were charged to three years on probation for supposedly spray-painting “Alexander is a thief”, “This is our forest” on the unlawfully built fence of the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory. This way the environmental activists expressed disagreement with the illegal construction of a fence in a natural reservation near the Black Sea.
Later Vitishko’s punishment was replaced by a real term in a penal colony. Suren Gazaryan was forced to leave the country.
The Petrozavodsk branch of YABLOKO plan to continue holding actions in support of the ecologists.
Posted: March 27th, 2014 under Evgeny Vitishko case, Human Rights, Protection of Environment.