The arrested activists – YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin,
General Major Anton Goretsky and Artur Grokhovsky, aid of
YABLOKO’s leader, spent over an hour in the district court
waiting for hearings on their case.
After an hour expired they went to the courtroom to find out
when the hearings were to take place. However, they saw a
judge discussing something with the OMON policemen who were
witnesses on the case. According to Grokhovsky, several policemen
were standing by the judge’s table and one of them was even
sitting on the table. However, the judge demanded to close
the door and not to interfere into the discussion.
YABLOKO’s activists left the court in protest against collusion
of the judge and the police, despite resistance of the policemen
who brought them to the court. “I think that what has happened
is a manifestation of an arbitrary rule and also a humiliation
to General Goretsky who on the Day of the Defender of the
Fatherland was kept in the police station for three hours
and then kept in court,” Mitrokhin said. “The judge not only
behaved incorrectly towards us, but even tried to make a collusion
with the witnesses who were actually a party in the case,”
he noted.
See also:
Picket against scanty pensions
accrued to the military pensioners held by the Ministry of
Defence. Press Release, January 20, 2010
YABLOKO’s leader
and General Major arrested for picketing in protection of
military pensioners’ rights. Press Release, February 23,
2010
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