Svoboda Party leader Oleh Tiahnybok said he had received a summons for questioning on Monday, December 6.
The party’s press service reported on Sunday that Tiahnybok had been summoned for questioning to the investigative department of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s main office in Kyiv "in a case on the protests against the Tax Code."
Summons were also issued to the deputy head of the party, Andriy Mokhnyk (for 1200 on Monday), the chairman of the Kyiv city branch of the Svoboda Party, Andriy Ilyenko (for 1400), and the deputy chairman of the Kyiv branch of the party, Ruslan Andriyko (for 1000), the press service said.
Svoboda described the Interior Ministry’s actions as the "continuation of political repression" by the current authorities.
In addition, one of the coordinators of the protest by entrepreneurs on Independence Square in Kyiv, Oleksandr Danyliuk, wrote in his blog that he had been summoned for questioning to the department for combating organized crime of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s main office in Kyiv on Monday.
Danyliuk earlier called on members of political parties to come to Independence Square in Kyiv on Monday, December 6, and continue the protest.
"What happened during the night [the dismantling of the tent city of protesters on Independence Square early on December 3] was a ticket to a war. We’ve accepted this invitation, and we announced a ‘general mobilization’ for Monday," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday.
He also noted that starting from November 22 the entrepreneurs had been protesting not only against the Tax Code, because small- and medium-sized businesses had made their clear political demands – the holding of parliamentary and presidential elections.
Danyliuk called on everyone who understands that businessmen were "standing on the Maidan [Independence Square] for the sake of democracy in our country, rather than for the sake of selfish interests" to join the protest on Monday.
An indefinite protest by entrepreneurs demanding to veto the Tax Code, which they said seriously changed the conditions for doing business under the simplified taxation system, started on Independence Square in Kyiv on November 22.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych vetoed the Tax Code and sent it to parliament with his proposals.
On December 2, the parliament approved the president’s proposals and adopted a new Tax Code.
At 05: 00 on December 3, the tent camp on Independence was dismantled under a ruling of the District Administrative Court of Kyiv regarding a ban on the holding of rallies.
According to Dragon Capital investment bank, the newly passed law – certain to be signed by Yanukovych – would:
