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Human
Rights
Activists
Accuse
Russian
Police
of
Planting
Drugs
9/25/98
On Monday (9/22), human rights activists in the former
Soviet Union accused Russian police of planting drugs on
innocent persons. At a press conference in Moscow, human
rights activist Lev Ponomaryev told reporters that "an
organization of crooked policemen... are persecuting people
who have nothing to do with drugs" and that the police were
acting "either under orders, or else to embellish their own
track records."
Sergei Bachinin, editor in chief or the newspaper Vyatski
Nabliodatel, who was arrested last year after police
allegedly found less than a gram of marijuana in his office,
headed the inquiry into the corruption. He told reporters
that he was "convinced that there are many files falsified
with the help of fake testimonies and provocation."
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Issue #60, 9/25/98
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