Advocate Dorogova asks President of Kabardino-Balkaria to protect her from prosecution

Larissa Dorogova, a lawyer of the Bar of Kabardino-Balkaria, has sent a letter to President of the Republic Arsen Kanokov with a request to protect her and her son from incessant prosecutions.

The lawyer writes that she thinks useless to apply to the prosecutors, since the Prosecutor's Office of Kabardino-Balkaria initiated deprivation her of the lawyer's status, having accused her of "unfair attitude to her professional duties."

"Under forged materials that I allegedly 'used obscene words and threats to SIZO employees', the inspectors were twice rejected to initiate a criminal case against me, and the Prosecutor's Office of Kabardino-Balkaria cancelled these decisions," the lawyer said.

Under the initiative of the Prosecutor's Office of Kabardino-Balkaria, Dorogova was prohibited to enter the SIZO. As a result, her clients, with whom she has agreements, do not receive advocate's help. "This is done despite the fact that Judge M. Z. Tashuev, who chairs the criminal case, has given me a written permit to do this work," Ms Dorogova has reported.

Further, the lawyer gives the circumstances of prosecution: "In the mail box at my residence I periodically find anonymous letters with threats of physical violence. All these letters have return addresses of the Moslems whom I now defend, which evidences their obvious provocation nature and absurdity. On the last occasion, the letter with a threat of murder was accompanied by a Kalashnikov cartridge."

On May 9, four unknown persons, having caught near Dorogova's house her son, forced him into a white VAZ-2107 passenger car without license plates and kept him there for 7 hours, without letting him out and inflicting psychological pressure on him. The unknown persons asked him different questions about his mother's work and her plans, and threatened to find him in future at any moment.