Ekaterinburg protest meeting against illegality in prisons
posted by zaina19 on December, 2005 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/14/2005 2:35 AM 13.12.2005 13:50 MSK Ekaterinburg protest meeting against illegality in prisons RUSSIA, Ekaterinburg. (Ekaterinburg Movement Against Violence.) On December 12th, Constitution Day, at the office of the Representative of the President of the Russian Federation to the Ural Federal Region, a protest meeting took place against the arbitrariness of law-enforcement agencies. Participants presented Representative Peter latysheva with documents confirming the facts of illegality in the regions prisons.
Protest participants included victims, and relatives, and friends of those who suffered due to the actions of law-enforcement agencies.
Activists of the Ekaterinburg Movement Against Violence came forward in defense of political prisoners serving sentences in the Urals. Posters read "Freedom to Mikhail Trepashkin!", "Freedom to Pavel lyuzakov!", "Freedom to political prisoners!” Others came forward in defense of prisoners who are not political: "Criminal cases are prepared at the IK 2 "Factory”; "You can’t force respect for the law by use of the boot "; "Prison is a place for correction, not for torture and humiliation".
The demonstration of more than fifty people continued for approximately one hour.
Translated by OM Kenney PRIMA –News Agency [2005-12-12-Rus-24] http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2005/12/13/34351.html
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