In Moscow, Sergey Grigoryants fell under the car

In Moscow, a car ran into the 77-year-old Soviet dissident and human rights activist Sergei Grigoryan in the courtyard of his house. According to Mediazona with reference to the victim himself, this happened on Thursday.

The car hit a human rights activist on the leg. He was taken away by an ambulance, gypsum was applied to the victim in the hospital. As the Echo of Moscow clarifies , the driver disappeared.

“There was a rather strange feeling that he had been pissing me off. He was traveling along a narrow house passage behind me, saw me perfectly, did not signal and ran on my leg,” Grigoryants said. “It seems that a certain captain has appeared, who is entrusted with me, because strange stories occur once every few months,” the human rights activist added. According to the victim, the injury will interfere with his literary work. Now Grigoryants simultaneously writes three books: prison notes, memories of Varlam Shalamov and a book about how former KGB officers came to power in modern Russia.

In 1995, under the wheels of the car, the son of the Grigoryan, a 20-year-old student of the Russian humanitarian State University Timothy, died. The culprit of the accident then also disappeared and was not found.

In 1975, Grigoryants, a graduate of the journalism department of Moscow State University, was arrested by the KGB and sentenced to five years in prison for "anti -Soviet agitation and propaganda." After the release in 1982-1983, he distributed information about violation of human rights in the USSR in Samizdat. In 1983, the Grigoryan was again arrested and sentenced to seven years in a maximum regime. After the start of perestroika in 1987, the Grigoryan was freed. He resumed human rights activities and began to release the anti -communist journal "Glasnity". In May 1989, Grigoryants created and headed the independent trade union of journalists, which included former samizdates. In the same year, he was awarded the Golden Freedom Person of the World Association of Newspapers and News.

In the 1990s, the journalist advocated lustration, sued the KGB, demanded to return the archive seized from him in Soviet times.

Grigoryants is in a sharp opposition to the regime of Vladimir Putin, criticizes the president for infringing on civil freedoms, condemned the Second Chechen War. In 2015, the human rights activist acted as a defense witness in the process in the third case of Boris Stomakhin.