The UN Refugee Agency said in a statement it is "deeply concerned" about the disappearance of Leonid Razvozzhaev from Kyiv on 19 October. "The individual approached UNHCR [United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees] seeking international protection and was invited to be registered at the office of UNHCR’s partner organization, an NGO providing free legal assistance in Kyiv. The legal counselor at the organization conducted a registration interview and began to provide free legal counseling to the individual. During a break in the counseling session, the legal counselor contacted UNHCR in order to discuss the situation. Meanwhile Mr. Razvozzhaev said he would go to a nearby cafeteria for lunch and left his personal belongings in the office. When he did not return to the interview and the lawyer could not contact him on the phone, a missing person’s report was immediately filed with the Solomiansky division of the police," the UN agency statement reads. Two days later Razvozzhaev reappeared outside a Moscow courthouse, where he was recorded on video shouting that he had been kidnapped and tortured. The court ordered him detained for two months pendind trial. Razvozzhayev was on the run from Russian authorities after a televised documentary accused him of seeking funds from Georgia to help topple the government of President Vladimir Putin. On 22 October Russia’s Investigative Committee rejected claims that Razvozzhayev was beaten and tortured into confessing.
Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the Committee, said that Razvozzhayev had turned himself in and confessed to plotting riots. Supporters of Razvozzhayev say that any confession was coerced.
http://www.unhcr.org.ua/en/2011-08-26-06-58-56/news-archive/827-press-release-the-un-refugee-agency-is-deeply-concerned-about-the-disappearance-of-asylum-seeker-from-russian-federation (document)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/world/europe/leonid-razvozzhayev-russian-opposition-figure-says-he-was-kidnapped-and-tortured.html?_r=0
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20121022/176826973.html
http://www.unhcr.org.ua/en/2011-08-26-06-58-56/news-archive/827-press-release-the-un-refugee-agency-is-deeply-concerned-about-the-disappearance-of-asylum-seeker-from-russian-federation (document)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/world/europe/leonid-razvozzhayev-russian-opposition-figure-says-he-was-kidnapped-and-tortured.html?_r=0
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20121022/176826973.html
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