Volgograd rights defenders demand investigating disclosure of recruits' personal data

The Volgograd regional public organization "Mothers' Law" asks law enforcement agencies to clear out the circumstances of public disclosure by the Military Commissariat of personal data of recruits and their parents, and give a legal assessment of these facts.

Photos of young people to be recruited into the armed forces, accompanied by the information that they are searched by the police and military authorities, were stuck in the Dzerzhinsk District on the houses, where these recruits live.
As reported by the "Mothers' Law", apart of recruits photos, the leaflets contained almost all the personal data of the young people. Human rights activists have turned for comments to the Military Commissariat for the Dzerzhinsk and Tsentralny Districts of Volgograd, as well as the police, because the leaflets said that the search is conducted jointly with the police department. However, after the story received a broad public resonance, the militaries said that they had nothing to do with these leaflets.

The Commissariat refused to comment on the fact of spread of leaflets, saying that only the head of the recruitment division possesses all the information; however, the gentleman is almost impossible to be contacted on the phone.

According to the lawyer for the "Mothers' Law" Sergey Semushin, only two victims of that publicly had turned to them, "but in fact there were much more leaflets." "Moreover, none of these guys had tried to escape the military service," said the lawyer.

"We'll not leave it as it is and demand a legal assessment of this incident," the "Interfax" quotes Mr Semushin as saying.

In their turn, the militaries promised to investigate the case and punish those guilty of divulging the recruits' personal information, the "Life News" reports.