Amnesty International recognized the arrested FBK employees with conscience prisoners

Amnesty International recognized the administratively arrested employees and volunteers of the Corruption Fund prisoners of conscience. In the published statement, AI calls on the Russian authorities immediately and unconditionally release all members of the FBC and stop repressions against peaceful demonstrators, journalists and political activists.

“We believe that the members of the Navalny team were arrested only because they tried to take advantage of their rights,” said Sergey Nikitin, head of the representative office of Amnesty International.

According to AI, the employees and volunteers of the FBK were subjected to administrative arrests and persecution for organizing a direct broadcast of anti -corruption protests on March 26, while state media boycotted the coverage of these events.

"The detention of FBK and volunteers gave the authorities the opportunity to searches in the fund’s office, remove computers and documents containing valuable and possibly confidential information," the press release says. It is noted that this may pose a threat to criminal prosecution against those who helped the FBK employees to disclose corruption.

The representative of Amnesty International was present at the trial of some detainees. In his opinion, the defendants and their lawyers convincingly proved that the detentions were unreasonable, and that the police raids in the FBK office pursued the goal of disrupting the work of the fund. However, the court did not take into account their arguments. AI concludes that the trials of the FBK employees were unfair and politically motivated.

On March 26, after 14 o’clock in the FBK office, from where the direct broadcast of the anti -corruption action was carried out in Moscow, the police appeared . Before that, a fire alarm was twice there. The building of the business center "Omega Plaza", where the office is placed, was cordoned off by security forces. Having interrupted the broadcast, the employees allowed firefighters with a dog to find the bomb allegedly laid there. Soon the security forces left without finding a bomb. The broadcast of the action has resumed.

However, shortly before 17 hours, the light was turned off in the fund of the fund, and then all the employees of the organization were detained and delivered to OP Danilovsky in the office. He was charged with part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (disobedience to the legal request of the policeman).

On Monday, the Simonovsky District Court administratively arrested Leonid Volkov, a project manager in the FBK and the head of the election headquarters of Alexei Navalny, for 10 days. Oksana Baulin, editor-in-chief of the Navalnylive web channel, as well as employees and volunteers of the FBK Ruslan Ablyakimov, Vladimir Buzin, Anton Gllemo, Sergey Gorkyev, Ekaterina Kenarev, Alexey Lapyshev, Ekaterina Melnikova, Vladislav Mosin, Anna Stagnenko and Konstantin Shirokov Blopokov Blopopulsi Blopulovy. Alexey Bakhrushin and Maria Zakharova were fined 1000 rubles each.