Thus, Ihor Huz, head of the Volyn organization "Youth Nationalist Congress," a deputy of the Lutsk City Council, reported that during September 30 - October 1, law enforcement officers took a series of unprecedented measures against opposition-minded youth: photo and video recording, surveillance, and escorting.
On the morning of September 30, a scheduled bus on which representatives of the "Pora" campaign were returning after an action in front of the Territorial Election Commission in Manevychi was stopped by a "Zhyhuli" with police license plates. A young man with a video camera got out of it and, after talking with the driver, began filming the activists at close range, which is a gross violation of their rights.
In the evening of the same day, members of the "Youth Nationalist Congress" noticed surveillance of their office and an unusual commotion around it that lasted all night. Police cars escorted all activists of "Clean Ukraine" who were to travel to Kyiv that night for an all-Ukrainian solidarity action with the participants of the 1990 student hunger strike.
Activist of the civic movement "Clean Ukraine" Andriy Bokoch spoke about the events that happened to him personally when, after unsuccessful attempts to leave for Kyiv, he was returning home at night. Near the building, three unknown men with knives intercepted him and threatened his life if he did not stop his active civic and political activity. Andriy was returning home late (4:15 a.m.) and at such a time no one should have expected that he would be near the building, and that he would come home at all. Andriy emphasized that his friends knew he was supposed to go to Kyiv. Only those who were with him, and ... the police, knew that he had failed to leave and was returning home.
The participants of the press conference warned that in the event of the continuation of similar actions by those who should be protecting rather than violating the law, they reserve the right to react, while emphasizing that they do not plan to do anything that contradicts the legislation.
In turn, long-term OSCE observer Peter Gould, who was present at the press conference and is in Ukraine as part of the mission to observe the elections of the President of Ukraine, assured that he plans to meet with the leadership of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and to look into the situation that has arisen in more detail.