In Krasnoyarsk, the executive director of the Krasnoyarsk branch of the movement "For Human Rights" Sergey Ulyashin was murdered. A well-known human rights activist was killed on April 4, 2005 at 10 o'clock on a busy street, at the moment when he was on his way to a meeting with Grigory Yavlinsky. According to the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, several versions of the crime are being worked out at once, and the main one is related to the commercial activities of the murdered. However, on April 6, 2005, a statement by a group of human rights activists was circulated, in which the murder of S. Ulyashin was called political.

"Sergei has been engaged in human rights activities for many years ," the statement said. " Literally three days before the murder, he initiated the creation of an organization to protect the rights of small businesses . "

According to human rights activists, Ulyashin was persecuted by criminals and law enforcement agencies for many years, criminal cases were unreasonably initiated against him and his wife, etc.

Recently, Ulyashin has repeatedly received threats of physical elimination and turned to the police for help, the authors of the document say, and demand a thorough investigation of the crime and punishment not only of the perpetrators, but also of the customer.

Klebansky I. A "successful" businessman was shot five times // Kommersant-Krasnoyarsk. 2005. April 5.

Sources

Political assassination? // Portal "Human Rights in Russia". 2005. April 6.

Krasnoyarsk human rights activist killed