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Von: "Hermann Dworczak" <>
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SOLIDARITY
NEEDED URGENTLY:
incredible repressions
on Russian antifascists
Datum: Dienstag, 3. August 2010 09:07
Please, try to spread this text around
as wide as possible and organize some solidarity actions in your countries. It
is IMPORTANT
In the morning of July, 29 antifascist Alexei Gaskarov was
called in for a conversation to the local Internal Affairs Department. From
there he was passed on to Extremism Department officers and taken away in the
unknown destination. Most of the regulations of the law that determines the
operation policy for the police have been violated. No relatives have been
informed, no notice has been served to state the fact of the arrest. That very
evening antifascist Maxim Solopov has been called in for a conversation by
Okhotny Ryad metro station after the “Russian News Service” radio broadcast.
Maxim has come to the meeting spot but no conversation has taken place. He was
handed into a car and brought to Khimki. At night apartments of Gaskarov and
Solopov have been searched. Alexei Gaskarov's flat was searched with no warrant
and due papers being provided, without assets being listed and with no attesting
witness.
We
clearly understand why this were Alexei and Maxim who got arrested. They are
well known in public and are taking responsibility for being publicly open. They
never concealed their views, appeared both in press and on the radio. They got
arrested being the only antifascists well known to the police. Now the police is
under pressure from the administration of the president, that’s why at least
someone needed to be arrested.
On the evening of July 28th administration headquarters of
Khimki town (in the Moscow suburbs) have been attacked by a group of 300-400
people mostly covering their faces with masks. They've organized a march to the
building shouting slogans of "Saving Russian Forest" and "Stop the lawlessness",
there some windows and doors have been broken and aforesaid slogans drawn on the
wall. That was a final response to years-long fruitless struggle of ecologists
for secure of the Khimki forest - a unique eco-system that has to be destroyed
in order to build a new Moscow-Saint Petersburg road. During years of defense 2
people (including one journalist) have been hardly injured (one killed, one
became disordered) because of their attempts to protest against the decisions of
corrupted administration of the Khimki town. This July when they finally started
to cut the trees (without providing any permissive documents) and hired openly
neonazis to attack ecologists several times, social bomb has exploded and some
left activists, antifascists and other non-indifferent people symbolically
attacked Khimki administrative building. Nobody was hurt, no fire has been
started, no police appeared. And next day they've started arresting the most
famous and publicly known persons in antifascist movement as well as some
journalists that were hardly oppressed and threatened while kept within police
stations.
As
Alexei’s and Maxim’s faces are known to the police and mass media this would
have been too stupid of them to take part in violent actions. And they want to
imprison them for 7 years.
We clearly understand that to ask for the guys to be
released is to cry for the moon no matter how hard we long for it. We appeal for
the legitimacy although this institution in our country is being defied by the
guardians of law themselves. We demand that the legal procedure against our
friends is not turned into demonstrative judicatory. We urge that mass media is
allowed access to the procedure. We demand that your laws are being observed by
yourselves.
We
know that the truth is ours and we will break through.
On July, 31 the first closed judicial
session took place in Khimki. Nobody was allowed in. The building was surrounded
by bunches of riot police officers, water cannon trucks with also a number of
ambulances and police cars around. After 48 hours of the guys being detained,
the charge should have been brought against Alexei and Maxim today but they
still haven't been accused and the judicial session has been postponed until
Tuesday, August, 3 being qualified by the judge as a “tough” one.
It has also come to light that their
protocols state that the guys were detained on the crime site which contravenes
to the original police statement which read that no one was arrested after the
incident. This gives evidence that the cases are being invented.
We’re disturbed by the way the
procedures are progressing and would appreciate any international support.
--
Best,
N.