"Whenever a bell tolls, it tolls for each of us. When they are seized, we must think that we may be seized, too" - Ludmila Alekseeva

posted 10 Nov 2012, 07:36 by Rights in Russia   [ updated 10 Nov 2012, 07:43 ]
9 November 2012

"Whenever a bell tolls, it tolls for each of us. When they are seized, we must think that we may be seized, too" - Ludmila Alekseeva on the arrest and unfair conviction of demonstrators and civic activists.

Source: 'Sentence on Luzyanin is just the beginning - rights activist Alexeyeva,' KyivPost, 9 November 2012

"The sentence on businessman Maxim Luzyanin is just the beginning of a long series of trials related to the May 6 disturbances on Bolotnaya Square, Russia's eldest human rights activist, Moscow Helsinki Group leader Lyudmila Alexeyeva told Interfax on Friday. 'This is just the beginning. The trials of 18 persons are ahead. Lebedev, Razvozzhayev and Udaltsov may be amongst them,' she said. 'If the trials of the policemen who beat participants in a peaceful and permitted rally for no apparent reason had been equally harsh and their sentences had been similar, I would have said that our courts are strict but fair. But not a single policeman has been accused, although many rally participants were beaten,' she said, referring to the Moscow Zamoskvoretsky Court's decision to sentence Luzyanin to four-and-a-half years in prison." [Read more]
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