14:26 16.12.2013

Popov summoned to Prosecutor General's Office for additional interrogation

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Popov summoned to Prosecutor General's Office for additional interrogation

Oleksandr Popov, whom the Ukrainian president has suspended as head of Kyiv City State Administration, has been summoned to the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine for additional interrogation, the Prosecutor General's Office told Interfax-Ukraine on Monday.

As reported, the Prosecutor General's Office handed Popov a notification of being suspected of abuse of power due to the events that occurred on Independence Square in Kyiv in the early hours of November 30.

On Friday, December 13, Popov testified about his actions on the night of November 30, and on December 14, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych suspended him as head of Kyiv City State Administration.

Kyiv has been swept by pro-European Union protests since the Ukrainian authorities decided on November 21 to postpone the signing of an association agreement with the EU.

The Association and Free Trade Area Agreement between Kyiv and the EU was not signed during the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Early on November 30, Berkut riot police units brutally dispersed a pro-EU rally in Kyiv's Independence Square. It was reported then that 35 people were injured and another 35 were detained. Footage showing the suppression of the protest by police shocked the international community.

Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians joined an opposition-led demonstration on December 1 in defiance of a court ban on holding mass events on Kyiv's Independence Square, European Square and outside of administrative buildings.

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