These minutes the riot police (OMON) is dispersing the defenders
of the Khimki Forest (about 50 people) who gathered at Starobeyevskoye
field so that to demonstrate their resolve to save the forest
from cutting.
Ten minutes after the meeting of the ecologists began the
police came to the site and began detaining all the men present
at the meeting.
YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin was one of the first detainees.
Wringing his hands the policemen forced him to come into their
car making him sit on the floor, virtually in the luggage
compartment.
Now the police is transporting all the detained to the Police
Department No 2 of the Khimki town.
See also:
More activists
detained in the Khimki Forest. Press Release. July 31, 2010.
Police begins
persecutions against the defenders of the Khimki Forest. Press
Release. July 30, 2010.
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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