Nalchik/Agency Caucasus – Larisa Dorogova has asked in her recent letter to President Arsen Kanokov of Kabardino-Balkaria for immediate action to supply her and her son with protection against death threats that she began to receive after she had volunteered to defend the young Muslim people who had been involved in some turbulent incidents in Nalchik in 2005.
She felt the need, she wrote in her letter, to be guaranteed state protection both for herself and her son because she periodically received letters of death threats, in one of which was even there a bullet.
She wrote in her letter that on May 9 four unidentified people had forced her son to get in a white car, whose license plate read "VAZ-2107," and had questioned him for seven hours about what his mother had done and had planned to do in the near future. She also wrote that her son had been threatened that he could have been seized again at any time in the near future if he had not behave well.
All these things had been done to increase psychological pressure on her, wrote Dorogova.
"The people of this country, Kabardino-Balkaria, would like to remind you of your promise both to fight bribery prevalent among members of the security units and to protect the civil rights of people," wrote Dorogova.
She later continued to express her concern with efforts that had been initiated by the public prosecutor to force her to end her career short as a lawyer after she had been involved in a quarrel when she had been denied permission to see her client in a prison.
"I will have to explain my actions before a disciplinary committee. The public prosecutor, however, forgets that the onus is on it to only check if laws are being obeyed or not. The most significant characteristic of being a lawyer is independence. Even though the investigation magistrates dismissed as being fake the documented proof that I used a swearing language and I threatened the prison officers, the public prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria insists that the documented proof is genuine."
The Kabardino-Balkaria public prosecutor made the effort to deny Dorogova permission to see her client in a prison.
Kanokov received a letter of request from the Kabard-Balkar Center for Human Rights to supply Dorogova with state protection. The relatives of those who had been involved in the October 13 incidents also issued a similar request to the president to protect Dorogova. KU/ÖZ/FT
