Police patrol tries to detain ORChD executive head DmitriyevskyMilitia makes an attempt to detain the managing director of the RCFS
On 1 September 2005 at about 11.10 am Stanislav Dmitrivsky was stopped by two militiamen of the patrol force when he was going to work who made an attempt to detain him. Dmitirievsky was stopped in Sovetskaya Square not far from the building where the RCFS office is situated. They started asking him why “he had so strange eyes and why he was walking in such a strange way. Then they asked him whether he had some alcohol in the morning. When the militiamen ordered Dmitrievsky to show his passport, they started examining it and it lasted for quite a long time. They also asked him where he worked. Dmitrievsky tells, “I have an impression that the militiamen were trying to find any cause to detain me and if I hadn’t had my passport on me, I would have been detained. All that lasted for quite a time. After all, I asked the militiamen whether they had any other questions or claims. One of the militiamen said no and permitted me to go to work. It must be connected with the intention to prevent us from holding tomorrow’s picket in front of the building of the tax inspection. However, I can’t state anything for sure as today is September 1 and the militia is carrying their traditional raid against drunken people. They surely have received some special order how much people addicted to alcohol and people who resemble Chechen terrorists they should detain”.
On 2 September at 3 pm the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society is going to hold a picket in front of the building of the tax inspection of Nizhegorodsky district of Nizhny Novgorod situated at the address 52a Il’inskaya Street. The aim of the picket is to express disagreement to the absolute unlawful, in our opinion, decision to impose the income tax upon the assets received by a public organization to implement projects and demonstrate our contempt for the staffers of the tax inspections who have performed “the dirty political order”, from the point of view of the members of the RCFS.
Today Stanislav Dmitirvsky received summons from the prosecutor’s office to come to the chief investigator Oleg Kiryukov who is going to charge him of perpetrating the crime that part1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian federation refers to (inciting to ethnic hatred) and to interrogate him as a charged offender. Dmitirevsky is to be charged at 11 am tomorrow. Yesterday famous Russian human right advocates including Sergey Kovalyov and Lyudmila Alekseeva signed “The Open Letter on RCFS Persecution” in which they expressed their deep concern about harassment of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society that has been imposed on it by different state bodies.
(The text was not edited by Prague Watchdog).
Source: Russian-Chechen Information Agency
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