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In St. Petersburg, a member of the medical workers' union "Action" was interrogated in a criminal case
In St. Petersburg on December 21, security forces came to the home of Vladimir Baranov, a member of the Deystviye medical workers' trade union, and threatened to break down the door; On December 22, the doctor was interrogated in a criminal case. This was reported on the page of the trade union in VKontakte.
Baranov is a witness in a drug trafficking case (Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code). His associates associate the pressure with trade union activity. The activists also said that the doctor's account "in one of the messengers" was hacked, and noted that at the moment "the threat of a search in his [Baranov's] apartment remains."
After the creation of the trade union, they began to come to hospital No. 40, where Baranov works, with frequent checks, and in 2021 a case was opened against the activist himself for spreading “fake news” about the coronavirus (Article 207.1 of the Criminal Code). However, the proceedings were discontinued due to the lack of corpus delicti.
In 2022, Action filed a lawsuit against the hospital for refusing to provide the documents required by the union. Before the court hearings, unknown people began to come to Baranov's house.
12 January 12:13 Vladimir Baranov reported surveillance and attempts to hand him a summons to the draft board. about this He spoke in an interview with the St. Petersburg edition of Paper.
According to the doctor, the same people have already tried three times to hand him a summons to the military registration and enlistment office. The last time, on December 22, after interrogation by the investigator. Baranov clarified that they wanted to hand him a document demanding to appear at the military registration and enlistment office and clarify the data right outside the door of the office where the interrogation took place. The doctor refused to take the summons, citing sick leave.
Also, Baranov, after the security forces came to his house, began to notice that he was being followed: “Now, when I leave the house, people immediately appear, as it seems to me, from the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the FSB. When I go out to throw out the garbage, they collect it: a car drives up, they take a picture of the trash can, and it’s empty, I throw out the bag, and they take it away.
In addition, during the interrogation, the investigator said that Baranov was made a witness in the case of the distribution of drugs because a certain drug addict said that he had purchased drugs in the house where the doctor lives.
- trade union The Action was founded in December 2012 by initiative groups of doctors from Moscow and Izhevsk. This was the result of the decision of doctors, paramedics, nurses, students of medical schools and universities to unite to protect their labor rights. Currently, Actions units exist in 57 regions of Russia.