Olena Bilozerska
Blog: http://bilozerska.livejournal.com/Arrested between 30 Mar 2010 and 13 Apr 2010
According to RSF, the Kiev police interrogated the online journalist and blogger Olena Bilozerska searching her home in the past few days in a bid to obtain information about participants in protests.
Bilozerska was summoned to a police station, respectively on 30 March. She was questioned about certain demonstrations by opposition activists that se covered in February. Her interrogation came three days after police armed with search warrants searched her apartments and examined the contents of her computers.
Two DVDs with photographs were taken from Bilozerska's apartment.
When she was interrogated again on 13 April by a police inspector, he was accompanied by a man who claimed to have been one of the demonstrators. The inspector insistently encouraged the young man to state, that Bilozerska had known about the demonstration on the preparatory stage and, in fact, was a participant, not a witness.
She is now facing the possibility of being prosecuted as an accomplice in what she regards as a judicial farce being orchestrated by the authorities with the apparent aim of scaring her and reducing her to silence.
Bilozerska said she had never met her accuser before and was struck by his use of legal vocabulary when he gave his statement, which he seemed to have learned by heart. She is the only person being interrogated in connection with the demonstration. The protesters who threw the eggs and smoke grenades have not been detained or questioned, although the inspector knows their names – the young man told him.
When Bilozerska experienced the symptoms of a mild heart attack during the interrogation, the police prevented emergency medical services from treating her quickly.
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