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Chief of the Security Police of Latvia has proposed to release the Latvian public right defender Alexander Gaponenko who stayed under custody for more than 2 months, IA Sputnik reports. Normunds Mezhviets visited Gaponenko in prison to make this appealing offer promising freedom. In exchange, Gaponenko had to acknowledge that he was involved in social activities on Moscow’s errand.
Intelligence services together with authorities have planned to conduct a sensational public court hearing with several defendants to demonstrate the world that the oppositional activities of the Russian activists are incited by the Kremlin.
Nevertheless, Gaponeko refused to bear false witness being accused of non-cooperation. Security Police suspects the public rights’ defender of assisting the foreign state in its anti-Latvian activities.
The public rights defender described the situation in his claim and sent it to the European Court for Human Rights. He claimed that his arrest following the court’s decision is a violation of all basic articles of the European Convention on Human Rights including the right for freedom and personal inviolability, rights for fair court hearing and others.
Note that the Latvian Security Police detained the leader of the Headquarters for Protection of the Russian Schools Alexander Gaponenko in April. He is accused under contrived pretexts of activities directed against independence of the Latvian Republic. The public rights defender might be sentenced to 8-years in prison.
Russkiy Mir
