Police search rights group's office in Moscow

Publisher Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Publication Date 28 May 2009
Cite as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Police search rights group's office in Moscow, 28 May 2009, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/4a293d7cc.html [accessed 17 September 2023]
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May 28, 2009

Police have searched the office of the human rights organization Spravedlivost (The Justice), RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.

The group's lawyer, Stalina Gurevich, told RFE/RL that she was harassed by the police officers, who broke the office's door and forcibly kept the group's workers inside.

She said the search warrant was issued for a different address.

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