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Irkutsk: The human rights activist takes a second search in a week
The human rights activist Svyatoslav Khromenkov, a representative of the Public Verdict human rights fund in Irkutsk, takes a second search in a week. This was reported by Siberia. Realities by activist Yevgeny Ivanchenko. Khromenkov himself said that he was not in Russia now and will not return to the country until "until the authorities provide a thorough objective investigation."
At the same time, the investigators were conducted in the apartment of the wife of Khromenkov, a psychologist at the Public Verdict, where for three hours, the investigators refused to let a human rights activist a lawyer. "These actions are aimed at preventing the human rights activities of Svyatoslav, who is engaged in the investigation of the torture and cruelty of police officers with the inhabitants," Ivanchenko believes.
According to Khromenkov, during the second search, the operative was again present, participating in the investigative actions in the case of torture of the resident of Usolya Marina Ruzaeva in the police department.
SR in mobile SR on Instagram Wed FacebookEarlier, the mother of human rights activist Natalya Khrmenkova, investigators threatened criminal prosecution. According to Ivanchenko, one policeman pinched his fingers on his hand during the hacking of an apartment of the human rights activist, but they are trying to blame Khmenkov of this.
The search itself on December 12, according to Khromenkov, was almost 12 hours and ended at 2 a.m., with the removal of three system units, three laptops. The mother of the lawyer disappeared a personal phone and money from the safe. The police did not provide any protocols about the seizure of money and things. Human rights activists consider the search illegal, since the decision on it was issued for non -residential premises, and the apartment of Khromenkov was residential. According to human rights activist Pavel Glushchenko, these "investigative actions" were carried out due to the fact that earlier the lawyer managed to refer the case of the torture of Ruzaeva in the police from the Investigative Committee of Usolya-Sibirsky in the UK for the Siberian Federal District. Later, Khmenkov was informed that the official reason for the searches was a criminal case instituted on another lawyer (presumably by the name of Noskov), while the status of Khromenkov himself was not voiced in him.
- Marina Ruzaeva has been trying to hold the police who tortured her in the site for three years. She claims that she was beaten for five and a half hours in the Usolsky police department with the use of a stamper, forcing to confess to the murder of a neighbor. The human rights activists of Irkutsk with great difficulty managed to get a criminal case against Major Denis Samoilov and the operatives Alexander Korbut and Stanislav Golchenko from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Usolya-Sibirsky. Two of them still work in the local police, and Major Samoilov “with honors” retired.