The opposition will enter the rally in defense of the Constitution. The authorities answered "winter fun"

Opposition activists and human rights activists are going to hold a rally on the 31st article of the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of assembly, on Sunday, on Sunday in Moscow. The authorities warned that the action was not agreed, and it would be suppressed.

"The city government warns that in case of attempt to conduct an inconsistent event, its organizers and participants will be punished in strict accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation," the press service of the Moscow City Hall said. According to Interfax, a source in the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow, "if the rally participants come to the triumphal square, this will be considered as violation of the law, and appropriate measures will be taken to them." "The most active participants in the action in case of disobedience to the requirements of the police will be detained," the source said.

The head of the opposition coalition "Other Russia" Eduard Limonov, the head of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseev and a representative of the opposition "Left Front" Konstantin Kosyakin on January 18 submitted an application to the Moscow City Hall to hold the triumphal square of the rally in defense of the Constitution.

The Moscow authorities said that the triumphal square is busy, the “Winter Fun” campaign will be held there, and offered to the opposition and human rights activists to gather in Bolotnaya Square or on the embankment of Taras Shevchenko.

The organizers of the rally considered the city hall response illegal and sued. They stated that in 2009, under various pretexts, they did not allow them to gather on the triumph square five times.

“The purpose of public actions is to be public, and here, they don’t even take dogs to walk on the embankment of Taras Shevchenko. There is not a single person, there is nothing humiliating for civil society at all. We are not satisfied with the change of places, we want the same place,” Limonov said earlier in response to the proposal of the authorities instead of the triumphal square.

Limonov, Alekseev and Kosyakin are trying to organize a rally in defense of the Constitution every month in which there is a 31st of the number. Everyone refuses them. Attempts by civil activists to hold a rally end in the transfer of several hundred police officers and mass detentions to Mayakovsky’s monument.

According to the representative of the "other Russia" Alexander Averin, the reason for refusing to agree on rallies on the triumphant square in 2009 were: the competition of cyclists dedicated to the Children's Day on May 31, the cycle sports festival "Choose Health, Be like us on July 31, the sports youth festival on August 31, the military-sports festival" Division "on October 31 and the shares of the loyal The authorities of the Movement "Russia Young" December 31.

Oppositionists and human rights activists are going to come on January 31 to the Triumphal Square, despite the ban on the authorities.

The rally on January 31 was supported by leading independent human rights organizations - the Moscow Helsinki group, "Memorial" and the Movement "For Human Rights". The opposition politician Boris Nemtsov promised to come to the monument to Mayakovsky.

The previous time an attempt to organize a rally in defense of the 31st article of the Constitution was undertaken on December 31.

A few hours before the New Year, the police detained the opposition to the triumph square of the opposition, 82-year-old Alekseev and several dozen people. Alekseeva, who moves with the help of a wand, was detained in a Snegurochka costume. In addition, the police detained her relative, who helped the human rights activist to come to the Monument to Mayakovsky.

International human rights organizations condemned the actions of the Moscow police on December 31 on the Triumphal Square and called the detention of opposition and human rights defenders illegal.

"We, as Amnesty International, want to say that such actions by the Russian Federation violates the human rights and their own constitution, and prevents people from using their right to freedom of assembly and expression of opinions," said Sergey Nikitin, head of the Russian branch of Amnesty International.

In accordance with Article 31 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, "citizens of the Russian Federation have the right to gather peacefully without weapons, hold meetings, rallies and demonstrations, marches and pickets."

A picket in defense of the 31st article of the Constitution was held in Vladivostok

About 20 activists of the Tiger organization (partnership of initiative citizens of the region) and supporters of the Communist Party, as part of the All -Russian action, held a picket on the central square of Vladivostok in defense of rights and freedoms in the country.

The correspondent of the Interfax agency transfers from the scene that local authorities were notified of all the rules about holding the action, so law enforcement officers who observed the progress of the picket did not prevent its holding.

People gathered under the slogans "For freedom of speech!", "For freedom after the word!", "For the 31st article of the Constitution."

The picketers also expressed support to Major Alexei Dymovsky, who, in their opinion, was unfairly dismissed from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was taken into custody "for daring to openly criticize the police system," said one of the organizers of the picket, Artem Samsonov. The picket lasted about an hour and passed without incident.

As previously reported, a former employee of the Novorossiysk Internal Affairs Directorate, Major Dymovsky, who gained fame after he spoke on the Internet with a appeal about corruption in the law enforcement system, is now under arrest. He was charged with fraud (part 3 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The basis of this was the data that A. Dymovsky allegedly appropriated about 27 thousand rubles for four years of work, which were allocated for operational-search measures.

On November 7, 2009, Dymovsky posted a video message on the Internet, in which he urged the federal authorities to restore order in law enforcement. Soon after, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Rashid Nurgaliev, appointed an official audit on the facts set forth in the Major appeal. Almost at the same time, it became known that Dymovsky was dismissed from the internal affairs bodies.