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| Ukrainian officials 'amnestied' over violent crackdown |
| 2014-02-13 |
| Ukrainian prosecutors have ended criminal proceedings against two top officials charged with abuse of power for pushing the police chief in the capital to use force against antigovernment demonstrators. These are the prosecutors who moonlight at the DoJ's investigation of the IRS... Prosecutors in Kiev said on February 12 that the investigations against Volodymyr Sivkovych, deputy secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, and Oleksandr Popov, the head of Kiev's city administration, had been dropped as part of a recent amnesty law approved by President Viktor Yanukovych. The two had been suspended in December, after police violently cracked down on demonstrators on November 30, injuring dozens. The amnesty law also says that all detained demonstrators should be released, but only if antigovernment demonstrators evacuate the government buildings they occupy. The opposition on February 12 denounced what it called the "cynicism" of the authorities and demanded that all demonstrators be released "immediately." |
| Posted by:ryuge |