Press Release, June 26, 2013

Sergei Mitrokhin, YABLOKO leader and candidate to the Moscow Mayor, applied to Anatoly Yakunin, head of the Moscow Police, with a request to establish the identity of the persons who seized his iPad during the attack on the office of the “For the Human Rights” movement and return to him his tablet PC. 

On the night of June 21, Sergei Mitrokhin was in the office of the “For the Human Rights” movement where he was trying to find out the legal grounds for eviction of the human rights movement from their office. He photographed and video recorded the developments with his iPad.

When he tried to photograph Andrei Verigin, a representative of the Moscow Central Administrative District authorities who was controlling the eviction, the official seized the iPad from Mitrokhin and handed it to one of the policeman. Mitrokhin demanded to return his tablet PC, however, the policeman refused and left the office.

“I am asking you to establish the identities of your staff who were in the aforementioned premises on the night on June 21, 2013, and to establish the identity of the officer whom Andrei Verigin gave my computer and adopt measures to immediate return of the tablet PC to back to me,” runs Mitrokhin’s application to the Moscow police head.

Also Mitrokhin specially emphasizes in his letter that the PC is neither an evidence or a tool of the crime or an offense and belongs to him on the private property right and was confiscated against the owner’s will.

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Sergei Mitrokhin tries to stop the eviction of the “For the Human Rights” movement