Support the arrested in St. Petersburg
anonym - 16.07.2006 12:27
At OVD 38, where the activists arrested today at the hotel blockade are detained, people now get taken fingerprints and photographed by people in civilian clothing - UPOB officers.
One of the arrested, a journalist and participant of the Network against G8 demanded legal support, but was told that he had a right to a lawyer only in court. When he said that he knows the law and insisted in contacting a lawyer they started to threaten him that he would be released the last, would be put in the worst prison cell and so on. Lawyers are not allowed into the department.
According to the latest information, in the 28 police station there are between 31 and 36 arrested, among them 8 citizens of the former USSR and 8 from other foreign countries.
Once more the coordinates of the police station:
191119, Saint Petersburg, Marat str. 79
Tel. No. (812) 764 28 02
Lawyers are still not permitted to enter. The legally possible period of detention (3 hours) has expired.
Call there, demand their release, askd for comments on what will happen to them!
Call also:
The police administration of central district:
(812) 274-01-16, (812) 271-02-02,
The prosecutors office of the central district, inform them about criminal action at the 28 police station, where Russian citizens and foreigners are being detained without legal justification.
(8-812) 712-02-51, (8-812) 764-26-15
You can help!
Call the OVD as journalists, call journalists you know and ask them to call and/or go to the OVD. Go there yourself! What we need now is pressure from the public and press on the authorities. Call also to the embassies and consulates of those countries whose citizens the arrested activists are:
Germany +7 (812) 320 24 00, fax 579 32 42
Britain +7 (812) 320 24 00
Poland +7 (812) 336 31 40
Ukraine +7 (812) 271 47 00, fax 271 47 77
Netherlands +7 (812) 334 0225, fax 334 0225
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