MOSCOW, February 24. /ITAR-TASS/. Ella Pamfilova, candidate to the post of human rights commissioner of the Russian Federation, hopes for the mitigation of the sentences passed on Monday on participants in Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square protests that took place on May 6, 2012.
The presidium of the United Russia faction in the State Duma on Monday supported Pamfilova’s candidature to the post of human rights commissioner of the Russian Federation proposed by the Russian President. Vladimir Putin earlier discussed her nomination with human rights supporters and with the previous ombudsman, Vladimir Lukin, whose powers expired on February 18.
Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky court on Monday passed the sentences on eight defenders ranging from the conditional sentence to 4 years of the deprivation of freedom for their part in mass protests in Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012.