posted by zaina19 on November, 2005 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/10/2005 5:23 PM 31.10.2005 12:52 MSK Assault on Ivan Starikov Ivan Starikov Ivan Starikov RUSSIA, Moscow. Ivan Starikov, member of the Federal Political Council of the Union of Right Forces (URF) party, was attacked on the night of 28 October by unknown assailants. The assault took place in the apartment block where he lives as he was returning home from a hockey training session. The politician suffered injuries and lost several teeth. The assailants did not take money or any of his possessions.
Ivan Starikov didn’t rule out that the attack was linked to the fact that he had supported Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s candidature to run for the State Duma, URF press service reports. The Union of Right Forces expressed anger in connection with the vicious assault on Ivan Starikov. "We are convinced that the incident was directly linked with his political activities," says the statement by the Presidium of the party’s Federal Political Council.
The statement demands that Moscow law enforcement agencies carried out immediate and effective inquest into the incident.
The statement says that URF members in Moscow City Duma and the State Duma will do all they can to punish this crime.
The assault on Ivan Starikov is yet another evidence demonstrating that the state cannot cope with its duty: it is incapable of ensuring security of its citizens. The question of whether or not high-ranking officials of the law enforcement bodies are suited to their posts has been imminent for a long time, the document’s authors stress.
Translated by Olga Sharp PRIMA-News Agency [2005-10-28-Rus-26] http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2005/10/31/33779.html
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