UPC closed the case of beating detainees in Moscow

Department of the Transfiguration of the area of the Investigative Committee at the RF Prosecutor's Office closed the criminal case against members of the ATS "Sokolniki", suspected of beating eight young people. This was in the room for September 21 reports Time News. " As it became known to the journalists, the decision to discontinue the investigation of police action was taken in early August, but the young people themselves and their lawyer Yevgeny Chernousov were informed about it only "recently". In its decision UPC substantiated the lack of corpus delicti in the actions of police. In this case, according to counsel victims, this decision is contrary to law because the decision to dismiss the case on this basis can only be accepted if the setting of specific individuals, and they formally charged. However, in the case of investigating the beating of young people, according to Chernousova, those supposedly were found, and the case was brought against "unidentified police officers. In addition, the lawyer said in an interview with newspaper journalists in the course of the investigation there have been no identification, no confrontation, despite the fact that his client had expressed a willingness to identify the policemen beat them. Moreover, the lawyer said, in the investigation battered young people featured as "anti-fascists and communists," while the police were on the case only as witnesses. In this regard, the paper says, Chernousov already sent a complaint to the prosecutor's office and the management of the UPC in Moscow with the intention to challenge the decision to dismiss the case. Recall the incident for which sentence was instituted criminal proceedings against the police, occurred April 4, 2008 at the metro station Sokolniki. As the testimony of young people, 18-year-old Vsevolod Ostapov militiaman was arrested for drinking beer, but tried to challenge the actions of policemen on the spot. Then, as an acquaintance told Ostapova Karyazin Cyril, a young man with the use of force was taken to an unknown destination, in connection with which a crowd gathered around. Then reinforcements to the militiamen, resulting in the defenders Vsevolod were arrested and subsequently beaten. The incident generated wide publicity, in Moscow were several protests against the actions of the police. At least one of them - 11 April 2008 - was dispersed by police.