One of the founders of the tent camp in Central Kiev said about beating

One of the founders of the tent camp in Central Kiev Rustam Tashbaev said that June 8 was beaten, then left for the USA.
"The first thing I said when in 06. 00 got to the threshold of the nearest native soul and rang the door: "Please don't be scared!". The photos were taken in Ukraine in two hours after I was thrown in the woods the morning of June 8, 2015 ", - he wrote on his page on Facebook and has published several photographs showing the injuries.
"unidentified citizens, beating and torturing me all night, I decided (Or was instructed) 't kill me and threw me out After sunrise in the forest. Don't know what exactly helped. Or realized that I am Not the enemy of Ukraine, and just an idealist, whose underlying causes strange Or unusual. Well, Or murder of a US citizen does Not in plans, " he said." Five hours ago I was released from the hospital After a 10-hour examination and fixation of injuries received as a result of the events of that night, " he added. June 7 in the center of Kiev gathered a group of active participants, who accused the Ukrainian authorities wanted to obtain from the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko report on the work done in One year at the helm of the country, said the hunger strike and set up tents. First, the protesters approached the police with a request to remove the tents, and later, the media said that unidentified demolished tents are active participants in district events police arrived and a number of people among the protesters were caught. Among them was One of the founders of camp Rustam Tashbaev. In Kiev periodically renewed demonstrations of disagreement. So, at the end of may, the trade unions of Ukraine gathered for a rally near the building of the Cabinet of Ministers in Kiev. Before this, members of the So-called financial Maidan staged a protest action near the building of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. They demanded to return money to depositors of distressed credit institutions, and also played for the resignation of the head of the NBU Valeria Gontareva. Remember, last night's demolition of tents and the dispersal of the rally on independence took place when President Viktor Yanukovych in early winter 2013. To say that the assault came a violent, impossible, however, and it was Not peaceful, rather nervous. Had to storm the barricade, the composition of its materials to take away, along the way it was demolished a few tents, one of which caught fire. During the violent disbanding of the head of the faction "Batkivshchyna" Arseniy Yatsenyuk in the megaphone unsuccessfully called "Berkut" to disperse. The U.S. and several European countries issued a sharp condemnation of the actions of the Kiev authorities. After that Yanukovych criticized the actions of the Kiev police and protesters returned to the square.


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