Sochi: tenants in Akatsij Street state violation of their rights by authorities

In Sochi, residents of No. 5A in Akatsij Street are preparing an appeal complaint against the decision of the court, which had prescribed to demolish a toilet and a wood shed, thus depriving them of elementary amenities.

According to tenants, earlier, the No. 5A had been on the list of the objects for demolition.

The house and the land plot should have been alienated for the Olympic construction of the federal highway M-27 Dzhubga-Sochi.

"But the construction work were launched without our resettlement," said Yulia Saltykova.

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expressed its concern about the fate of the house tenants. Its address to the head of the administration of Sochi A. Pakhomov of March 29 points out that the authorities "ignore the fact that most of the yard structures listed in the lawsuit exist in their present borders for nearly 60 years..."

"Such a sudden change of the Sochi authorities' policy, aiming now to judicially treat these structures as illegal is an arbitrary and unreasonable interference with the family rights and violation thereof, while these rights are guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)," says the above appeal, a copy of which is at the disposal of the "Caucasian Knot".

Human rights activists urged the city authorities to withdraw the lawsuit, but this was not done.