Google translation: Concentration camp in the centre of “Olympic City” (Sochi) Real ethnic cleansing has started in Sochi under the guise of combating illegal migrants. This is reported by defenders, lawyers and even employers. On the night of 19 September 2013, ATS Central District has turned into a real concentration camp for detainees of Turkey, Armenia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and even Russia. According to eye witnesses, for the past 9 days since the beginning of the special operation to free the “Olympic City” of foreign workers in the various police stations, detention centre Adler, Blinov, Hosts visited hundreds of people. Among the detainees appear and Russian citizens, who for one reason or another did not have time to get Sochi registration. Get under police flywheel can fall even vacationer. People are detained in the streets, cafés, beaches and railway stations where they are going to come back from a holiday home. Working from Ekaterinburg, Alexander Dotsenko, for obvious reasons, not naming a company in which he works since 20 August, was arrested Wednesday at 8:00 am, when he and his colleagues - the citizens of Dagestan - was getting on the bus to go to work. At first, no one had paid any attention, but then when Dotsenko stood up for colleagues, was detained as well. “Detained us under the pretext of checking documents, said that all of this will be short-lived”, says the worker. “Have led us into the courtyard, where 300-500 people were standing. Many were there for two or three days.” Dotsenko claims that almost all delivered to the police fingerprinted and say that it is done for personal identification. In this case, each claim to have the right to hold people for two days. People remain for days under the open sky without food and water. All Wednesday night at the Central District Police Department were on duty human rights activists, lawyers and relatives of detainees and even employers who brought to his work for food, clothes, documents confirming the legality of people stay in Sochi. All attempts by the lawyer Alexander Popkov and coordinator of the Migration and Law Human Rights Centre to get an interview with head of the police have been unsuccessful. “For a long time we muryzhili promised that we will come to the first head of the police, then his deputy. In the end it turned out that talk to us no one wants” said the lawyer. According to him, in Sochi “is boundless, shameless stripping citizens, without regard to persons and documents”. People of various nationalities, including Russians are in the neighborhood of 4 to 7 days. Representatives of the firms and companies employing foreign nationals, the night was brought to the police documents, as in cases where workers are lawfully in the territory of Sochi have the appropriate licences and contracts for work. However, their arguments nobody listens. Two inhabitants of Astrakhan arrived in Sochi for three days. On Wednesday morning, they had to return home. But on the morning bus never came. An hour before departure police raided a residential street. They were detained while police and Cossacks checked passports. People were taken to the police department of the Central District, held until 2 am. “When we have got there, there were about 200”, recalls Isaev. “It was open courtyard.Whole day was rain in Sochi, people stood under rain dozens of hours. Lots of women.” People who have no money went hungry for days. After hours of confrontation and attempt to meet at least with some of the detainees, the coordinator of the network Migration and Law wrote a letter to the prosecutor. According to him, this was the only measure that can make the Sochi authorities, the police, the Cossacks, the Migration Service to abandon the practice of total raids, which in reality are like ethnic cleansing. “When we asked the representatives of the police to provide lists of detainees, we were told that there were no detainees. It was outright lie, trying to hide the obvious offence and forced me to write a statement about the mass kidnapping. Near the police department gathered dozens of relatives and friends of the detainees. They unanimously asserted that the police station turned almost into a concentration camp. We saw ourselves as delivering migrants to the police.” At the same time human rights activist suggests that the authorities are trying to hide the inhuman conditions in which they contain hundreds of people for more than three hours. And register them only when an order will give the head of the department, so as to delay the detainees in the police area. The police deliberately snatched out of the crowd of people of non-European appearance and without regard to any arguments, send them to a special detention centre which has a spetsizolyator (“special isolator”) for the temporary detention of illegal migrants. The police themselves admit that they were instructed to detain people who llok like they come from Caucasus or Central Asia. Repeated attempts to contact the leadership of the Central District of ATS to nothing lead. Thursday morning in the yard area is empty. Sochi observers suggest that most of the detainees distributed among different departments of the police to hide from the public massive security operation.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 21:42:48 +0000