20:00, 9 February 2010

Organizers of rally in support of Major Dymovskiy in Novorossisk receive threats

Threats are arriving to mobile phones of the applicants for a rally in demand of a fair trial of Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Vadim Karastelyov, an expert of the Novorossisk Committee of Human Rights (NCHR) and Dymovskiy's official representative.

"Yesterday, on February 8, an application was submitted on a rally in demand of a fair trial of Alexei Dymovskiy, for a radical reform of the MIA and dismissal of Vladimir Chernositov, head of the Novorossisk UVD. The rally is appointed on February 21, but already now its organizers receive SMS messages with threats addressed to organizers and their children," said Mr Karastelyov.

According to his story, yesterday the organizers complained about the threats to the Investigatory Committee, militia and human rights defenders.

Author: Dmitry Florin

Source: CK correspondent