Svoboda Party demands to categorize criminal proceedings related to beating of MP of Svoboda faction Andriy Ilyenko and his lawyer Sydir Kizin from hooliganism to attempted murder.

"Today the police categorized the case as hooliganism… it’s obvious that someone wanted to kill people," MP of Svoboda Yuriy Syrotiuk said at a briefing in the headquarters of the national resistance on Saturday in Kyiv.

He said that Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko is responsible for beating of Svoboda members and he is to resign urgently.

Syrotiuk also said that Svoboda demands that investigator Hovynsky who interrogated Ilyenko and who knew the place and the time when the interrogation was finished (later Ilyenko and Kizin got neaten not far from the building of the police department) is discharged.

MP of Svoboda Oleksiy Kaida said that pressure on Svoboda members and members of their families continue. He said that cars of Svoboda activists were set on fire and letters with threats were received.

"We demand to quickly investigate into all criminal cases," Kaida said.