Law enforcers start search at house of human rights defender Zoya Svetova

The search in the house of journalist Zoya Svetova, a former member of the Moscow Public Oversight Commission (POC) is carried within the investigation into the "YUKOS case", and it does not threaten the human rights defender with any procedural status. This was reported by a source familiar with the situation.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Zoya Svetova, a human rights defender and a journalist, highlighted the trial in the case against Ukrainian citizens Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, sentenced for involvement in the first Chechen war on the side of the militants, and in the case against Maksim Panfilov, a resident of Astrakhan, accused of assaulting a policeman during mass riots in Bolotnaya Square in Moscow.

Today, on her Facebook page, advocate Anna Stavitskaya has reported that the search in the house of Zoya Svetova is carried out in Moscow in the case against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and others, initiated on June 20, 2003, for embezzlement of state funds and funds of Open Joint-Stock Company (JSC) "Apatit".

Timofei Dzyadko, a son of the human rights defender, has confirmed that the search takes place "in the 'YUKOS case' and the "Open Russia" case.

"The searches at the Zoya Svetova's place are carried out within the investigation into the 'YUKOS case', this is a common routine procedure which will not threaten the human rights defender with any procedural status," the "Interfax" quotes a source familiar with the situation.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.