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AS REPRESSION ESCALATES IN PUTIN'S RUSSIA...
Protest Vicious Attack on Bashkortostan Trade Unionist!
Date: 10/04/00
RUSSIA INFO-LIST
from International Solidarity with Workers in Russia - ISWoR
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from Konstantin Prasolov, Zaschita
URGENT!
A VICIOUS ATTACK AGAINST ALEKSEI RYBALKO, THE LEADER OF THE WORKERS AND
COMMUNIST MOVEMENT OF BASHKORTOSTAN,
CO-CHAIRMAN OF TRADE UNION "DEFENSE - WORKERS RESISTANCE"
OF BASHKORTOSTAN REPUBLIC (Russia)
Dear comrades,
The authorities of Bashkiria have again used brute force against
opposition. This time their victim was one of
the leading activists of the workers and communist movement, the
co-chairman of Executive Committee of trade
union "Defense - Workers Resistance" of Bashkortostan, a deputy of the
October district council of Ufa Aleksei
Rybalko, a turner from the Ufa tool-making industrial association who has
organized numerous protest actions at the
enterprise and the city level.
On April 5, around 6 pm, Aleksei Rybalko was attacked in the street by
people in police uniform and
plain-clothed, who without any warning and explanations grabbed him from
behind, wrung his arms and pushed
into the car, where he was greeted by a blow of truncheon on his eyes.
As the result of this blow he temporarily lost vision and orientation.
Obviously, the attackers did this so that
Aleksei could not identify them afterwards.
Once in the car, three thugs began methodically beating their victim
by truncheons, trying to hit him in the
head. They beat Aleksei Rybalko until he lost consciousness and then threw
him out of the car in front of an
apartment building. There he was very quickly "found again" by a police patrol.
The policemen (I.R. Yusupov, I.Z. Shaikhinurov and R.N. Bayev), at
first, tried to hand Aleksei over to the
sobering-up station. When its personnel refused to admit him, they told
Aleksei to go home, even though his eyes
were injured and swollen, he could hardly see anything and his right hand
was broken after he tried to protect
himself from the blows of truncheons.
Only when he referred to his deputy status and requested medical help
the police officers agreed to transport
him to the hospital. However the physicians of Hospital #22
(traumatologists Muslimov and Suleimanov and
neuro-surgeons Islamov and Saubanov) refused to provide Aleksei with first
aid, referred him to an out-patients'
clinic, and sent him home in the police car.
Only after Rybalko's wife had seen the condition of her husband and
refused to receive him in such condition
and called medical emergency, he was taken again to the same hospital where
the first medical aid was given to him
and the X-ray of his head and hand were made.
However the physicians refused to give Rybalko the medical evidence
about his injuries and the X-ray pictures.
When two days later Rybalko's wife came to the hospital looking for the
evidence of her husband treatment in the
admittance records and the X-ray, she found out that everything was sent to
the archive and the records book was
replaced by a brand new one.
Comrades,
This is not the first case of Baskortostan's powers to be using brute
physical force against opposition. The
former editor of opposition newspaper "Together" Victor Shmakov and Artyom
Tikhonov, a 15-year's son of the
chairman of the movement "Workers Bashkiria", were beaten cruelly. However,
the guilty ones were never found. I
am sure that the investigation of this case also will be sabotaged by
authorities. If we allow the perpetrators of this
crime to go unpunished cases like this will soon become the norm everywhere.
I ask you to send the telegrams and letters of protest to following
addresses:
450025, Ufa, Lenin street 7, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republic
Bashkortostan
Fax +7 (3472) 234760
Management of internal Affairs of city of Ufa +7 (3472) 374040
Cabinet of Ministers of Republic Bashkortostan
450101, Ufa, Tukayeva street, 46,
Press-service: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Press Secretary: Rustem Vakhitov
Fax +7 (3472) 505747
Ministry of Foreign Relations
Russia, 450101,
Republic of Baskkortostan,
Ufa, Toukajev str.46
Tel.: (3472) 50-68-56
Fax: (3472) 50-68-70
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
450000, Ufa, Krupskaya street, 19, Office of Public Prosecutor of
Republic Bashkortostan.
Office of Public Prosecutor of city of Ufa - Fax +7 (3472) 229012
Bashkortostan Trade Mission in the USA
2740 Coulter Lane
Gillette, Wyoming 82716
Tel.: (307) 682-4600
Fax: (307) 687-2000
Representation of the Ministry of Foreign
Relations of the Republic of Bashkortostan in the
Austrian Republic
A-1040 Wien Argentinierstrasse 25-27
Tel.: 43-1-505 26 68
Fax: 43-1-505 83 46
Telex: 131848
Please, send copies of your protests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
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With communist greeting,
Konstantin Prasolov,
Co-chairman of the Executive Committee
of Trade Union "Defense - Workers resistance" of Republic Bashkortostan
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*Please also send copies to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] so we can monitor the
response to our publicising of this
appeal. Thank you.
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