All protesters detained in front of Nizhny Novgorod Tax Inspection building freedAll participants of the peaceful picket dispersed in Nizhny Novgorod are released
2 September 2005. By 7 pm (Moscow time) all the detained participants of the picket dispersed in Nizhny Novgorod had been released. The militia drew up protocols on the breach of administrative law in the majority of cases. The militiamen didn’t manage to draw up some protocols as they received the order to release all the detainees three hours after their delivery to the police office of Nizhegorodsky district.
The RCIA reported before that on 2 September 2005 at about 3.35 pm, the unauthorized human rights picket that was being held in front of the building of the tax inspection of Nizhegorodsky district of Nizhny Novgorod situated at the address 52a Il’inskaya Street was dispersed by order made by the administration of Nizhny Novgorod and the prosecutor’s office of Nizhegorodsky district of Nizhny Novgorod. Members of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, Nizhny Novgorod Committee against Torture, Nizhny Novgorod Region Society for Human Rights, the Soldiers’ Mothers’ Committee, Nizhny Novgorod branch of “Yabloko” party and its youth movement participated in picketing the tax inspection. Twelve participants were detained by the special militia forces.
On 26 August 2005 the tax inspection of Nizhegorodsky district of Nizhny Novgorod began the procedure of compulsory withdrawal of funds from the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society bank accounts. The funds are withdrawn according to the order made by the tax inspection to exact the income taxes by sending the collection letters to the bank according to the procedure described in Article 46 of the Tax Code. 844 227 rubles were ordered to be withdrawn from the accounts. Meanwhile, on 24 August 2005 the decision made by the tax body was appealed to the Arbitrage Court of Nizhny Novgorod Region and on 29 August it was appealed to the superior tax body. Human rights advocates regard this attempt to put non-governmental organizations and commercial enterprises and to impose the income tax upon the assets of the organization that are meant to implement its projects as unlawful, absurd and politically biased.
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Source: Russian-Chechen Information Agency (T/B) |
