A Kharkiv Euromaidan activist, Oleksandr Chyzhov, was detained by the militia on Saturday, Jan. 4, on immoral conduct charges. He is accused of distributing pornographic materials through the Vkontakte social network, reports Euromaidan SOS with reference to his Facebook page.
“Today at about 11:30 am, five officers from the Anti-Organized Crime
Department met me 100 meters away from the “Kharkiv Meat Processing
Plant” public transportation stop on Gagarin Avenue. They shoved me in a
car with darkened windows and ordinary numbers (civilian license plate –
ed.) and took me to the Chervonozavod local police precinct,” he wrote.
“While on the way there, one of the officers took my cell phone,
without any external witnesses or seizure paperwork. Upon the arrival
they brought me to office № 14, occupied by investigator Volodymyr
Yakovych Babushkin, and accused me of disseminating pornographic
materials on the Internet (via online correspondence in the Vkontakte
social network) under Part 2 of Article 301 of the Criminal Code,”
Chyzhov wrote.
“In addition, they took my passport away and photocopied it. The
officer who had seized my cell phone handwrote contacts from my
phonebook without explanation,” he reported.
“They also threatened to remove my home and work computers, to call
to my colleagues, neighbors, relatives and friends with the message that
I ‘m a proliferator of pornographic materials,” the activist wrote.
“I refused to testify without a lawyer. They kept me in the
investigator’s office for about two hours and forced me to make an entry
in the logbook, which was specially brought from the entrance hall of
the police station to the office, that I have no complaints. They
eventually released me and handed me a summons to show up at 10:00 on
Jan. 8,.2014, to give testimony as a witness,” Chyzhov revealed.
“A witness to what is unclear. When I came home and checked the
Internet, it appeared that my personal page on Vkontakte had been hacked
and I could not get access to it. The password recovery function is
also out of order,” he added.
In a similar case, on Dec. 31, the militia detained one of Donetsk Euromaidan’s activists, Yevhen Nasadyuk.
They forcefully delivered him to the Kuybyshevskyy local police
precinct under the pretext of a complaint filed by his neighbors
allegedly accusing him of corrupting the morals of minors.
They prohibited him from using his cell phone because he “could warn
his accomplices”. During the interrogation, they claimed that they have
evidence in the form of some sort of a pornographic video to use
against him.
That same day, his relatives called the neighbors who the militia
claimed had filed the complaint. The neighbors said that indeed the
militia had visited them earlier that day. The officers looked for a
girl who allegedly resided there and whose morals had been corrupted. It
remained unclear who actually filed the application.
Yevhen himself had planned to publically greet first lady Lyudmyla Yanukovych on New Year on that same day, Dec. 31.
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