"Memorial" recognized the drum for political prison

"Memorial" recognized the activist of the initiative group for the referendum "For responsible power!" Kirill Barabash is political prisoners and believes that he should be immediately released from custody, and his criminal prosecution under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code - terminated. This is stated in the message posted on the website of the human rights center.

"We believe that Cyril Barabash is undergoing criminal prosecution and is deprived of freedom solely because of his political beliefs, as well as in connection with the non-violent implementation of freedom of thought, freedom of expressing opinions and information, freedom of peaceful assembly and associations guaranteed by international treaties of the Russian Federation. The election of preventive measures in the form of a detention in the form of detention was not based on the law and occurred in violation of it Rights to defense, ”the statement said.

Retired Lieutenant Colonel Retired Barabash was detained on December 17, his apartment was searched. The next day, the drum was detained by the decision of the judge of the Khamovnichesky district court of Moscow Marina Filchenko.

Barabash became the fourth accused in the case of IGPR "Call". “Memorial” was recognized by Yuri Mukhin, Valery Parfyonov and Alexander Sokolov, who are under the same criminal case, political prisoners.

The investigation justified the accusation in the continuation of the prohibited organization “Army of the people of the people” called the IGPR “Calling” the investigation was justified by the fact that the accused set themselves the previous goals and objectives, namely, the creation of initiative groups and holding a referendum in order to make changes in the Constitution regarding the liability of higher authorities to the people.

According to the investigation, the accused at the same time realized that the true goal was to “loosen” the political situation in the Russian Federation towards instability, as well as the change of existing power illegally. ”