Rybachenko asks Estonia to prevent her from being wanted by Interpol

Political emigrant Anastasia Rybachenko, who lives in Tallinn, turned to the Prime Minister of Estonia Andrus Ansipa with an open letter, in which she asked to prevent her from putting it on an international wanted list through the interpol. “If Interpol puts me on the wanted list and the request will be adopted by the EU countries, this discredits democracy in the EU,” the activist writes . “If a person who has been forced to temporarily leave his country due to political persecution, while in the EU, risks being arrested on the same accusations that the EC is then distinguished from Russia?”

Rybachenko recalls that Article 3 of the Interpol Charter prohibits the wanted list of people pursued for political reasons. At the same time, the activist notes, the organization has repeatedly violated this ban. An ex-candidate for the presidency of Belarus Ales Mikhalevich is still wanted. At the request of Russia, the Georgian parliamentarian Givi Targamadze was put on the wanted list, and to exclude it from the Interpol base, the intervention of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili was required.

The activist also explains his refusal to ask for political investigation in Estonia. “I have no doubt that Estonia would consider my request for political asylum impartially,” she writes. However, Rybachenko adds, while Interpol did not put her on the international wanted list, she has no need for a shelter, since she is legally in Estonia and provides herself independently.

On the other hand, the political emigrant notes, the shelter does not give protection against Interpol. She refers to the history of the anti -fascist Peter Silaev, who, having received refuge in Finland, was then arrested in Spain. And although the Spanish court justified the activist, Silaev still remains in the Interpol base. “Thus, the refuge in Estonia, unfortunately, guarantees me safety only in Estonia, where I have no doubt in it,” Rybachenko concludes.

On October 31, Prime Minister Ansip offered Rybachenko a political asylum in Estonia. When politics was asked that the Estonian authorities could make activists to protect, he replied that "she should first of all provide the appropriate Estonian bodies with a petition for the provision of asylum."

On November 1, the Moscow City Court recognized the correspondence arrest of Rybachenko in the "Swamp case" by the legal arrest, thus leaving the decision of the Basmanny District Court of the capital of October 28. The activist is put on the international wanted list. Meanwhile, the press secretary of the State Prosecutor's Office of Estonia Karol Merzin said that the agency has not yet received a request from the Russian authorities to issue an activist.

On May 6, 2012, Rybachenko was detained after acceleration of the action on Bolotnaya Square, in a cafe. She was convicted by 5 days of administrative arrest .

In July 2012, Rybachenko’s mother was a search. The activist herself at this time was in Germany. In September, she was put on the federal wanted list , and in December it was charged under part 2 of article 212 (participation in the riots).

By this time, Rybachenko had already settled in Estonia. She entered the Tallinn Technical University for the specialty "International Relations". In Moscow, Rybachenko studied at the 4th year of the faculty of political science of the State Academic University of Humanities. However, the Gaugn leadership expelled the emigrated activist.