Communist deputy Bessonov accused of violence against person in authority
MOSCOW. May 1 (Interfax) - The Rostov regional department of the Russian Investigative Committee has charged State Duma deputy Vladimir Bessonov with violence against a person in authority during the conduct of official duties, the Russian Investigative Committee reports.
The Committee said that Bessonov organized an unpermitted rally of more than 100 persons on a square in front of the residence of the Russian presidential representative to the Southern Federal District in Rostov-on-Don on December 2, 2011.
The rally was not permitted and the police demanded that it must stop. "Bessonov and other rally organizers rejected the lawful demands of the police," the report said.
"After an officer of the police patrol service regiment and a deputy chief of the Rostov regional police department tried to disconnect the loudspeakers and to stop the administrative offense of the rally organizers and participants, Vladimir Bessonov inflicted injuries on the policemen and damaged their uniforms," the report said.
"The travel restriction was chosen as a measure of restraint of the defendant in the course of the preliminary investigation," it said.
