YABLOKO conducted a picket
in support of Yevgenia Chirikova
Press Release
August 4, 2010
YABLOKO’s activists Olga Ushakova and Andrei Lazaryev conducted
picketing of the Interior Affairs Department of the Moscow
Region where the police took today Yevgenia Chirikova for
interrogation. YABLOKO’s activists demanded to release the
ecologist.
After the end of a press-conference in the Independent Press
Centre the police virtually kidnapped Chirikova on the eyes
of journalists. Without giving any explanations three policemen
from the OMON division (the riot police) twisting her arms
took Chirikova to their car (strange, but the car number was
ordinary, not one of the special numbers belonging to police)
while journalists and ecologists were pushed off with police
chains.
YABLOKO’s Artur Grokhovsky was present in the police department
as Chirikova’s defence.
Tomorrow interrogations of the ecologist will continue in
the Khimki police. Chirikova has to come there by noon. YABLOKO
will continue providing legal aid to Chirikova.
