Unknown people shot at the car of a human rights activist from Irkutsk, who protects victims from torture.

In Irkutsk, unknown persons shot at the car of human rights activist Svyatoslav Khromenkov, who represents the interests of victims of torture. He also reported this.

“To the People of Baikal” “Sibir.Realii” Earlier, Khromenkov spoke about the incident in his Telegram channel - judging by the date of publication, they shot at the car on June 24. At that time, he did not provide other details of the attack.

said: At the time of the shot, there was no one in the car - Khromenkov himself was in his office, where he was broadcasting with director from Buryatia Artem Burlov. The car alarm went off, Khromenkov went outside and noticed a bullet mark in the windshield.

conducted There are garages near the human rights activist’s office, the territory of which is not covered by CCTV cameras. Khromenkov contacted the police and began installing additional cameras.

“It looked like a shot from a traumatic weapon. I constantly go to the courts, it’s not difficult to find me. I have at least 22 personal enemies—that’s how many cops we managed to imprison who tortured prisoners in the penal colonies of the Irkutsk region. In addition, many security officials have already been released - they are given short sentences, three or six years,” Khromenkov noted in an interview with “People of Baikal”.

The human rights activist added that he regularly receives phone threats from unknown numbers: “They say that I’m in vain calling them [the security forces] werewolves in uniform, they warn me not to do this again. The question is more about how I can even have a car. What if they shot while I was driving?”

In a conversation with journalists, Khromenkov noted that the shot at his car was a method of intimidation. He recalled a similar incident that happened with his colleague, human rights activist from the Irkutsk region Pavel Glushchenko. In May, unknown persons fired at his car with balls containing an oily liquid and damaged the body; there was no one in the car at that moment. The shooter was not caught on surveillance cameras because he was standing at a great distance, “People of Baikal.”

wrote - This is not the first case of pressure on Khromenkov and his relatives. In 2019, when he was searched, security forces, according to the human rights activist, threatened his mother, lawyer and human rights activist Natalya Khromenkova, with an article on the use of violence against security forces (Article 318 of the Criminal Code). In January 2020, the human rights activist learned that a criminal case had been opened against him, and his accounts were frozen. Then he told OVD-Info that he decided not to temporarily return to Russia. Subsequently, Khromenkov returned to his native Irkutsk. they came and told me