Directors of the Ukrainian library are kept in torture conditions

The director of the library of Ukrainian literature Natalia Sharina kept almost two days in the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Tagansky district of Moscow in torture conditions. This was announced by her defender Yevgeny Smirnov. The ball is accused by the "anti-extremist" article on the 282nd article for Ukrainian books seized in the denunciation library.

"My client from 8 hours 20 minutes on 10/28/2015 was not provided with nutrition, water, sanitary conditions, as well as opportunities for sleep. From 3 hours 00 minutes 10/29/2015 to the present, Sharina is in the premises of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Tagansky district of the city of Moscow. Previous interrogations were carried out at night without the possibility of rest," Smirnov said at the Smirnova protocol with the former. The library officer Sergei Sokurov, compiled at 18:30 Thursday.

Investigative actions were carried out without the participation of a lawyer by agreement, Smirnov emphasizes. The interests of Sharina were represented by the appointed lawyer.

The ball had two hypertension crisis, the pressure rose to 250 to 110. The investigator, despite the demand of the doctors, refused to let her go to the hospital and continued the interrogation. “For all the time, they never gave her water and food, they didn’t put it in the IVS. She spent the night at the Taganskoye police department on a wooden bench, surrounded by homeless and prostitutes,” Smirnov wrote.

Only 35 hours after the detention, after the confrontation, the ball was taken to the temporary detention center on Petrovka, the lawyer noted. There she will finally be able to wash and sleep.

At the confrontation of Sokurov, who worked since 2007 since 2010 as the chief librarian, said that Sharina spent the creative evenings of "authors that differ in Russophobia." Among the guests of the library were the nationalists Dmitro Povychko and Roman Lyashko, Sokurov noted. According to him, the public domain was "about 200 books of Russophobic content." The director of the library, according to him, did not react to Sokurov’s official notes.

Sharina refused to answer the investigator's questions. Smirnov noted in the protocol that Sokurov, who declared the absence of hostility towards the ball, considers it to be an "enemy of Russia, incompetent and greedy."

Full -time protocol Natalia Sharina with Sergey Sokurov:

On Wednesday, Sharin was detained after a search in the library. The search was held in her apartment. In addition to office equipment and electronic media, books were seized from her, including the Holodomor, several copies of newspapers in 2011, as well as letters from the presidents of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov.

Sharina is suspected of arousing hatred or enmity using an official position, said the head of the press service of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin. According to paragraph "b" part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code, the detainee threatens up to five years in the colony.

According to Markin, in 2011-2015, Sharina distributed among readers the book of the leader of the Ukrainian movement "Brotherhood", formerly one of the leaders of UNA-UNSO Dmitry Korchinsky, prohibited in Russia as extremist. During the search, a certain "printed products containing calls for anti -Russian and anti -Russian propaganda" was seized in the library. The Investigative Committee will petition to send the ball to the jail, the official concluded.

As you might assume, 2011 Markin mentioned in order to exclude the connection of the matter of Sharina with the case, according to which the library searches and withdrawal of books in December 2010 - January 2011. During the last of these searches, January 14, 2011, Sharina was beaten by a policeman. However, later in the same year the investigation in the case was suspended.

Meanwhile, one of the investigators who appeared in the library on Wednesday stated that a new search was carried out precisely in the previous case - the TFR was interested in "additional materials".

The municipal deputy of the metropolitan district of Yakimanka Dmitry Zakharov said that the search was carried out by his denunciation. "I, as a deputy who devotes a topic for Ukraine, Khokhlov, the DPR and the LPR, I received a signal about the presence of Bandera literature in the library," he wrote. "He turned to the law enforcement agencies. It turned out that not only me." The scammer personally attended a search in the library and placed a photo of the seized books and magazines on his page.

On Thursday, the head of the package department, Tatyana Muntean, said that during a search of the library they threw up the previously seized books, UNIAN reports . "We were thrown yesterday books that were seized during the first search, back in December 2010, which were not returned to the library," Muntyan said. She provided the corresponding document. Among these publications are the book of Korchinsky “Viin near Tatovpі” (“War in the crowd”), which in 2013 the court in Russia recognized as extremist literature.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry in the evening on Wednesday expressed a decisive protest in connection with a search in the library of Ukrainian literature. The agency reminded of the searches of 2010-2011, noting that the current visit of the security forces to the library was “not the first attempt by the Kremlin to stick the labels of“ Russophobia ”and“ extremism ”for all Ukrainian. “These rude and unmotivated actions of the Russian authorities once again confirm the aggressive policy of the Russian Federation in relation to Ukraine,” the diplomats emphasized.

The Russian Pen-Center made the appeal of the library of Ukrainian literature.