Witnesses needed!

Lawyers for those accused in the case of the riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6 are asking for help. The open letter they circulated states:

“The investigation into the Bolotnaya case has ended, and the trials are beginning. Hundreds (!) of prosecution witnesses are brought forward against those arrested. In the case of Mikhail Kosenko, who is the first to be tried, there are 359 of them, with the exception of three, they are all police officers.

Lawyers need defense witnesses, and there should be more of them!

Therefore, the lawyers of several of those arrested are asking everyone who was on Bolotnaya on May 6 and is ready to testify about what happened on the square to send their contact information for communication.

Testimony from everyone present is required, regardless of whether you saw any of the accused or whether you were detained or not. If you were at the protest on May 6 and are ready to do something to prevent a terrible crime - the imprisonment of innocent people, you are welcome.

Contact information is collected from the Movement for Human Rights and the Moscow Helsinki Group, write to the email addresses bukvarevaa@gmail.com and mhg@mhg.ru

In your letter, please indicate your full name, your contact information, as well as whether you were detained on May 6, and if so, under what article you were detained (20.2 or 19.3).”