President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko considers inadmissible the actions of representatives of law enforcement agencies in relation to representatives of the mass media in the Obolonsky District Court of Kyiv, press secretary of the Ukrainian president Sviatoslav Tseholko has said.
“President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko considers inadmissible the actions of representatives of law enforcement agencies in relation to representatives of the mass media in the Obolonsky District Court of Kyiv, press secretary of the Ukrainian president Sviatoslav Tseholko said.
As the media reported, in the morning of Wednesday, February 21, when President Petro Poroshenko was to be questioned in the Obolonsky District Court as a witness in the case of high treason of former President Viktor Yanukovych, security measures had been taken before the trial. In particular, journalists had to pass cordons of protection with metal detectors, and journalists were examined in a separate room for signs of body inscriptions in order to avoid previous precedents with protests of the Femen movement.
At the same time, Poroshenko testified in the video conference mode from the Presidential Administration building without visiting the Obolonsky district court building.
In turn, as lawyer Yaroslav Yatsenko reported on his Facebook page, on Feb. 21 morning an activist of Femen was detained in Obolonsky District Court, who was released “after five hours of illegal detention in the Obolonsky police department.”
“At the same time, she was not presented with any charges and complaints against her by the police. As the head of the department told me, the police had been drinking tea with the activist for five hours and had been explaining to her that it was improper to show off her body in courts. And, of course, she was drinking tea with them in the police department absolutely voluntarily. In fact, the activist was not allowed to leave the police for five hours and hid her whereabouts,” the lawyer said.
He added that it was “an example of the unprecedented in the world practice of violation of human rights and humiliation of human dignity, when the police forced women to undress and show their bodies, and the young defenseless girl was kept in captivity for five hours without legal grounds – just to prevent a peaceful protest against the president.”
