A human rights activist and expert from the Moscow Helsinki Group is being searched in Sochi

In Sochi, the apartment of human rights activist and expert of the Moscow Helsinki Group Semyon Simonov is being searched. this on his Facebook . reported Alexander Popkov, lawyer for the Agora International Human Rights Group,

The door to Simonov's apartment was broken. According to Popkov, investigative measures are being carried out not by the Investigative Committee, but by police officers - an investigator and a district police officer. The reason for the search is still unknown. Popkov also writes about the search of the relatives of a former member of the human rights organization Ecological Watch in the North Caucasus.

September 13 17:26 Later, the portal “Kavkaz. Realii reported that the search was related to a criminal case on forgery of documents. The investigation believes that one of the protocols of the "Southern Human Rights Center", which Simonov manages, is fake. This protocol refers to the change of the legal address of the organization. After the search, Simonov was summoned for interrogation, he is involved in the case as a witness.

Simonov believes that the persecution is caused by his social activities.

• In Krasnodar today there was also a search at the home of one of the participants of the Ecological Watch, according to the coordinator of the movement Andrey Rudomakha. Law enforcers connected the search with a criminal case against the FBK.
• throughout Russia Today, September 12, searches are being carried out at the headquarters of Alexei Navalny and the FBK. Events are also held in the apartments of headquarters staff, as well as people whose connection with the FBK is not obvious. In Krasnodar, several members of Navalny's headquarters and local activists were also searched.