27/6/2007 St Petersburg Public Prosecutor's Office investigates into the beating of a lady-participant of "Disagreement March"
On Monday June 25, 70 days after the "Disagreement March" in St Petersburg, the Office of Public Prosecutor of the Admiralty District of the city initiated a criminal case on the fact of beating by an OMON (Special Militia) fighter of Olga Tsepilova, a participant of the opposition action and a member of the "Yabloko" Party Bureau.
According to the information of the web site "Fontanka.Ru," the case was initiated on the excess of official powers by the OMON fighter.
The "Caucasian Knot" has already informed that at the press conference after the "Disagreement March" in St Petersburg, Grigoriy Yavlinskiy, leader of the "Yabloko" Party, told about the circumstances, at which Olga Tsepilova received her trauma: "When she stood up for one of the participants of the meeting, she was struck by a truncheon in the face, and her jaw was broken."
We remind you that the "Disagreement March," during which the militia applied force to disperse the demonstrators, took place in St Petersburg on April 15. By different sources, from 500 to 1000 persons took part in the action, and about 120 participants on that day were delivered to militia stations of the city.
See earlier reports: ""Disagreement March" in Moscow will be guarded by 2000 militiamen."
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