Archive for 'Human Rights'
Sergei Mitrokhin demands to open a criminal case against the policemen who detained him during remembrance action
Press Release, 12.11. 2015 YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin demands to open a criminal case against the policemen who detained him on 7 November (the anniversary of the October Revolution – the Bolshevisks’ coup d’etat of 1917) during the action in memory of cadets and officers who fought against the Bolshviks in 1917.
Posted: November 13th, 2015 under Human Rights, Overcoming Stalin's Legacy.
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The case of Sergei Mitrokhin is in Presnensky District Court, Moscow
Press Release, 10.11.2015 District Police Department Arbat is charging YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin with violating the rules of conducting “mass-scale events” Article 20.2 of the Administrative Offences Code) and “defiance of a police lawful order or a demand” (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Offences Code). The latter envisages up to 15 days of administrative arrest.
Posted: November 10th, 2015 under Human Rights.
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The Supreme Court to consider an appeal on classifying military casualties in peacetime
Press Release, 09.11.2015 On 10 November, the Board of Appeals of the Supreme Court of Russia will hear the appeal of public figures against the refusal to recognize the presidential decree to classify military casualties in peacetime unlawful.
Posted: November 10th, 2015 under Human Rights, The Russian Army.
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“With your support I will be able to withstand”. About a thousand people came to rally in support of Evgenia Sukhorukova
Photo, Video Guberniya Daily | 07/11/2015 Residents of Petrozavodsk came to a rally in support of Evgenia Sukhorukova today with the slogans “A sentence to Sukhorukova is a sentence o the whole of Karelia!” , “Evigenia, we are with you!” “[Governor] Khudilainen to dismissal!” Despite Saturday and bad weather about a thousand people came to […]
Posted: November 9th, 2015 under Human Rights, Situation in Karelia.
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Radikale Venstre Chairman Morten Østergaard on Sergei Mitrokhin’s arrest
Posted: November 8th, 2015 under Human Rights, Political Parties, YABLOKO and the International Liberal Family.
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YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin released after interference of human rights defender Andrei Babushkin
Press release,07.11.2015 On October 7, YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin was brutally arrested during YABLOKO’s annual peaceful action of laying of flowers commemorating the victims of the Bolsviks’ terror – officers and students of military schools who defended democratic Russia against the Bolsheviks’ coup in 1917. Mitrokhin was released after several hours of arrest only after […]
Posted: November 7th, 2015 under Human Rights.
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Historical choice of police officers on anniversary of October coup?
hro.org, 07.11.2015 Leader of the Russian democratic YABLOKO party Sergei Mitrokhin was brutally detained in Moscow on October 7, 2015. He was arrested during the action in memory of the officers and military cadets (junkers) who were killed when defending the democratic Russia in 1917.
Posted: November 7th, 2015 under Human Rights.
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YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin brutally arrested
Press release, 07.11.2015 Brutal arrest of YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin during YABLOKO’s annual peaceful action of laying of flowers commemorating the victims of the Bolsviks’ terror – officers and students of military schools who defended democratic Russia against the Bolsheviks’ coup in 1917.
Posted: November 7th, 2015 under Human Rights.
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Mitrokhin: Sentence to Evgenia Sukhorukova is Khudilainen’s revenge
Press release, 02.10.2015 Today, on November 2, the Pretrozavodsk city court of the Republic of Karelia gave Evgenia Sukhorukova, deputy mayor of Petrozavodsk, member of YABLOKO regional branch team, a three years suspended sentence with one year probation period for abuse of official authority causing heavy consequences as deputy head of the Prionezhsky district, Petrozavodsk.
Posted: November 5th, 2015 under Human Rights, Situation in Karelia.
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Sergei Mitrokhin: The act of the law enforcement against Ukrainian library director represents a blatant violation of human rights
Press Release, 02.11.2015 Sergei Mitrokhin demands an official investigation on the detention of Natalia Sharina, Director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature in Moscow, on the justification of conducting investigation against her at night time, pressure on her and abandoning her without medical care. YABLOKO leader urges that those guilty of such abuse of power […]
Posted: November 3rd, 2015 under Human Rights.
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YABLOKO picketed State Duma against sadists’ law adoption
Press release, 21.10.2015 YABLOKO conducted a series of one-person picketing outside the State Duma against the adoption of the bill broadening the possibilities of the Federal Penitentiary Service officers to use physical force, impact munition and firearms against prisoners. Human rights defenses call the bill the sadists’ law. YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin and ex political […]
Posted: October 21st, 2015 under Human Rights.
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The right to torture prisoners is a true GULAG system return
Statement by the YABLOKO party, 20.10.2015 The bill broadening the possibilities of the Federal Penitentiary Service officers to use physical force, impact munition and firearms against prisoners, which the State Duma is planning to pass in the first reading, is nothing but the revival of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs methods in the Russian […]
Posted: October 21st, 2015 under Human Rights.
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Federal Penitentiary Service supports release on parole for Vitishko
Press release, 16.10.2015 Enviromnmentalist Evgeny Vitishko submitted another application on release on parole to the Kirsanovsky district court of the Tambov region. The Federal Penitentiary Service supported Vitishko’s motion for the first time.
Posted: October 19th, 2015 under Environmental Policies, Evgeny Vitishko case, Human Rights.
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YABLOKO commemorated Boris Nemtsov’s memory
Press release, 09.10.2015 Today, on October 9th, the politician and public person Boris Nemtsov would have turned 56. YABLOKO Chairman Sergei Mitrokhin, the party founder Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO Political Committee member Sergei Ivanenko and Secretary of the Political Committee Galina Mikhaleva laid flowers to the place where Boris Nemtsov had been murdered on the Bolshoi […]
Posted: October 12th, 2015 under Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov.
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Condolences on the terrorist attack in Turkey
11.10.2015 On behalf of the YABLOKO party let me express our deep condolences to the families and next of kin of those killed in the brutal attack during a peaceful demonstration in Ankara.
Posted: October 12th, 2015 under Human Rights.
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A superior court satisfied Vitishko’s appeals
Press release, 08.10. 2015 Today, October 8, the Tambov regional court annulled the decision of the inferior Kirsanovsky district court (court of the first instance) on the refusal to release on parole Evgeny Vitishko, environmentalist from the Sochi region and YABLOKO member, and the refusal to amnesty him in connection with the 70th anniversary of […]
Posted: October 9th, 2015 under Evgeny Vitishko case, Human Rights.
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Sergei Mitrokhin demands to investigate detention of an architect at the event organized to commemorate 120th birthday of great Russian poet Sergei Yesenin
Press Release, 03.10.2015 On 3 October, on the day of celebration of the 120th anniversary of great Russian poet Sergei Yesenin in his hometown Konstantinovo, police detained Valentin Gavrilov, 77, honorable architect of Russia and a person who survived the siege of Leningrad in 1941 – 1944. Gavrilov was charged with resisting the police and […]
Posted: October 6th, 2015 under Freedom of Assembly, Human Rights.
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YABLOKO to commemorate victims of the Great Terror
Announcement, 01.10.2015 On October 29 YABLOKO leaders and activists will participate in the memorial action commemorating the victims of political reprisals during Stalin’s period. 30,000 people were executed in Moscow in 1937-1938.
Posted: October 1st, 2015 under Human Rights.
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Lev Shlosberg appealed in court against depriving him of mandate in Pskov Regional Assembly
Press release, 28.09.2015 On September 28 Lev Shlosberg appealed in court against the decision of the Pskov Regional Assembly deputies to deprive him of the mandate on September 24, 2015.
Posted: September 30th, 2015 under Attack on Lev Shlosberg, Elections.
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Evgenia Sukhorukova, Karelian YABLOKO team member, faces imprisonment
Press Release, 29.09.2015 Evgenia Sukhorukova is Vice Mayor of Petrozavodsk, the capital of the Republic of Karelia, and member of the Karelian YABLOKO team.
Posted: September 30th, 2015 under Human Rights, Situation in Karelia, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.
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