Prosecutor starts looking into threats against ORChD editor ChelyshevaPRESS-RELEASE #1228 FROM MARCH 30, 2005
March 29, 2005. The prosecutor in the Leninskiy district of the city of Nizhni Novgorod finally started investigating the statement about the threats against the editor of IC RCFS, Oksana Chelysheva, which was submitted already on March 15. Until now all efforts by IC RCFS and Nizhni Novgorod media to gain information about how the work has proceeded have been fruitless, and the prosecutor have not undertaken any acts to look into the facts contained in the statement.
On March 29, 2005, in the afternoon, the deputy prosecutor of the Leninskiy district, Olga Bochkova, called Stanislav Dmitrievskiy and said that he quickly needed to give his testimony. An appointment was made for the morning of March 30. However, in the evening (around 8 p.m.) on March 29 the deputy prosecutor went to see Dmitrievskiy in his mother’s apartment, explaining that the matter could not wait and took a written statement from him. At the same time officers from the prosecutor’s office went to Oksana Chelysheva’s apartment but nobody except for her school-age daughter was there. Chelysheva is presently in Geneva working with the United Nations Committee for Human Rights.
As reported earlier, on March 14, 2005, around 8 p.m., unknown individuals distributed flyers in the neighborhood of apartment buildings 12, 14, and 16 on Iyulskikh Dney street in Nizhni Novgorod. The flyers contained slander, insults, and direct threats directed to Oksana Anatol’evna Chelysheva, editor of the Information Center of the inter-regional non-governmental organization “Russian-Chechen Friendship Society” (see our press releases #1208 from March 15, 2005 and #1209 from march 15, 2005). The flyers were distributed in the mail boxes in the aforementioned apartment buildings, and were also posted by the entrances to the buildings. Chelysheva lives in one of these buildings. On march 15 Chelysheva and Dmitrievskiy brought a criminal complaint to the Nizhni Novgorod province prosecutor. According to the statement, the individuals guilty of distributing the flyers are at a minimum guilty of violating the law with respect to part 3, article 129 (slander associated with accusations of grave criminal acts), article 137 (violation of right to privacy), and article 213 (hooliganism) in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
On March 22, 2005 the IC RCFS was informed by the representative of the prosecutor’s office that the statement was given to the prosecutor of the Leninskiy district in the city of Nizhni Novgorod as late as March 21 for investigation.
According to paragraph 1, article 140 in the criminal procedure code of the Russian Federation, “the examiner of any investigative agency, investigator, and prosecutor, are required to accept and review statements about any completed crime or criminal intent and… issue a decision within three days of the submittal of the statement”. According to paragraph 3 in the same article, “the prosecutor … has the right to … extend this period to 10 days providing the 1st paragraph is observed”.
On the very same day, March 29, Chelysheva’s statement about the criminal acts committed against her was turned over to the prosecutor of the Kanavinskiy district in the city of Nizhni Novgorod, since the building where she lives is located in that district. Chelysheva is presently on a business trip to Geneva, and her relatives were informed about the decision via a certificate letter from the Nizhni Novgorod prosecutor on April 1, 2005. On the next day Chelysheva received a letter with the report of the opening of the criminal case from the Nizhni Novgorod region prosecutor.
According to the statement, the individuals guilty of distributing the flyers are at a minimum guilty of violating the law with respect to part 3, article 129 (slander associated with accusations of grave criminal acts), article 137 (violation of right to privacy), and article 213 (hooliganism) in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
According to paragraph 1, article 140 in the criminal procedure code of the Russian Federation, “the examiner of any investigative agency, investigator, and prosecutor, are required to accept and review statements about any completed crime or criminal intent and… issue a decision within three days of the submittal of the statement”. According to paragraph 3 in the same article, “the prosecutor … has the right to … extend this period to 10 days providing the 1st paragraph is observed”. (Our corr.)
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