The Kyiv police has asked not to spread untrue information on the alleged involvement of police officers to the beating of MP of Svoboda faction Andriy Ilyenko and his lawyer Sydir Kizin, the press service of the chief department of the Interior Ministry of Ukraine in Kyiv told Interfax-Ukraine, with the reference to Head of the investigation department and Deputy Head of Kyiv Police Chief Anatoliy Yevmin.
The press service said that an investigator called a lawyer of Svoboda Party
Kizin asking to bear witness by Svoboda leaders as a part of an investigation
into hooliganism on January 1, 2014.
The testimony was required by the fact of expulsion of two Svoboda members
from the party due to events on January 1.
The police said that Svoboda selected persons who will come to bear witness
to the police and chose the time when they come. It was not an official notice
asking to come as witnesses.
The press service said that Kizin told the investigation that he will come to
the police with Ilyenko at around 1600 on Friday.
“We ask not to spread unconfirmed information on the fact that police
officers could be involved in beating of Ilyenko and Kizin,” the press service
said.
The press service said that the Svoboda members stayed in Prorizna Street
until 1720 and at 1738 they returned to the police with a claim that they were
beaten.
