Right Sector radicals reject law on amnesty, say won't leave Grushevsky Street
KYIV. Jan 31 (Interfax) - The radical movement Right Sector does not recognize the law on amnesty passed by the Ukrainian parliament and has no intention of leaving Kyiv's Grushevsky Street, Dmitry Yarosh, a representative of the movement, said.
"We definitely feel negative about it [the law]. It's a law on pawns. We do not recognize this law and we will continue to stand our ground," Yarosh said on a live program on Channel 5 on Thursday.
Yarosh recalled that the main demands made by the Right Sector are that the authorities should stop using force. "We demand that they stop using any kind of force, but they continue doing that, we are seeing that in the regions. Our activists go missing, they are battered and detained," he said.
Yarosh also said the Right Sector insists "that the people taken prisoner by this regime should be fully cleared."
"They should release all prisoners and clear them. These are our main demands. We said that in this case we can leave Grushevsky Street and return to our previous location on the Maidan," the activist said.
The Right Sector is an informal group composed of activists from some Ukrainian nationalist right-radical organizations. The group, which calls itself part of an international movement, became known for its clashes with Ukrainian Interior Ministry units during the Euromaidan events in Kyiv. The Right Sector is lead by Dmitry Yarosh.