23:09, 21 May 2007

Human rights defenders help to file 60 complaints against police in Tallinn

Within the recent three weeks, the Tallinn-based human rights organization "Information Centre for Human Rights" has helped people who addressed through the only Estonian telephone "hot line" for the victims of mass disorders caused by the Bronze Soldier dismantling in filing 60 complaints against the police actions, the RIA "Novosti" reports.

The Centre has informed that a total of 51 persons had telephoned to them. Besides, about a dozen applications arrived by mail or were brought personally into the office of the human rights organization, the "Gazeta.Ru" reports.

The "Caucasian Knot" has already informed that the Estonian-Russian relations got sharply worsened after the removal at night of April 27 of the monument to Soldier-Liberator erected in the Tynismyagi Mound in the centre of Tallinn, and the start of the works to rebury the remnants of the Soviet soldiers buried there. This decision of the Estonian authorities had provoked mass disorders in the Estonian capital, during which hundreds were detained after collisions with the police, dozens were wounded and Russian citizen Dmitri Ganin died.