Press Release, 30.07.2019

Photo: Yevgeny Bunimovich, Grigory Yavlinsky and Valery Borschyov

Yevgeny Bunimovich, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in Moscow and registered candidate for the election to the Moscow City Duma from the Yabloko party, appealed to Oleg Baranov, head of the State Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, and Oleg Manakov, acting Public Prosecutor of Moscow, demanding to check the lawfulness of the detention of minors at the protest action of 27 July. The protest action support of unregistered opposition candidates did not get a permission from the authorities and was held on Saturday 27 July, 47 minors were detained during the action. The Ombudsman condemned the use of violence against the protesters by the law enforcement.

Yevgeny Bunimovich took part in the action along with other members of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee – Grigory Yavlinsky, Valery Borschyo, Boris Misnik and Sergei Mitrokhin.

After the action, on 27 July, Yevgeny Bunimovich visited the Butyrskoye Department of Internal Affairs, where four teenagers were held. All were released after the arrival of the Ombudsman, one of the detainees was released on personal guarantee of the Ombudsman.

Photo: Yevgeny Bunimovich

Also Bunimovich together with Nikolai Rybakov, Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko party, visited the Akademichesky and Presnensky police departments, where Yabloko activists were held. Nikolai Rybakov wrote a statement addressed to the head of the Department of Internal Affairs Presnensky with the demand to release Maxim Dolinsky, unlawfully detained municipal deputy from Yabloko.

Photo: Nikolai Rybakov and Yevgeny Bunimovich