The police has begun persecution of the activists from the
"In defense of the Khimki Forest" movement and Euvgenia
Chirikova, the movement’s leader. According to the defenders
of the forest, yesterday they found out that they were under
surveillance, police officers came to their homes without
informing their relatives of the purpose of the visit. Also
the activists did not get any official notifications from
the police.
"Yesterday, shortly after we came out of the court of
the Khimki town, we found our that we were under surveillance.
It a stout man in a white suit. However, we managed to escape
him: luckily we quickly got into a taxi and headed to Moscow",
Yaroslav Nikitenko, Aid of Euvgenia Chirikova said.
On the same evening three activists of the movement In defense
of the Khimki Forest" were detained. Today, when Chirikiva
got home from her visit to the Public Chamber, she was told
that police had come for her. Policemen also visited Nikitenko’s
home and to two other ecologists. As earlier the activists
had already encountered different provocations and violations
of law on behalf of the police, some of them were afraid to
get back home. The Greens are going to wait for official clarifications
from the police.
YABLOKO will continue providing to the activists its information
support and is ready to provide legal aid.
See also:
Sergei Mitrokhin
applied to Prime Minister Putin and Public Prosecutor General
Chaika in view of unlawful cutting of the Khimki Forest. Press
Release. July 30, 2010.
Sergei
Mitrokhin stopped cutting of the trees in the Khimki Forest.
Press Release. July 30, 2010.
The Phobos company
continues eliminating the Khimki Forest despite Public Prosecutor’s
ban. Press Release. July 30, 2010
Ecologists and civil
activists detained in the Khimki Forest are facing 15 days
of arrest. Press Release. July 29, 2010.
Police
breaks into ecologists’ camp. Press Release. July 28, 2010
Public
hearings on the Khimki Forest postponed. Press Release. July
28, 2010.
Off with your
hands from the defenders of the Khimki Forest! Statement by
the YABLOKO party. July 23, 2010
Ecologists
block the driver who attacked the leader of the Movement in
Protection of the Khimki
Forest.
Press Release. July 19, 2010
In protection
of the Khimki Forest and its defenders. Statement by the YABLOKO
party. July 17, 2010.
Destruction of nature
has been accelerating. Statement by the YABLOKO party on the
threashold of the World Environment Day. June 4, 2010
Protection
of Environment
Human
Rights
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