signs of prolonged torture and cruel treatment of Auto-Maidan organiser Dmytro Bulatov, who was found alive yesterday after having been missing for a week. [...] All such acts are unacceptable and must immediately be stopped. It is the authorities' responsibility to take all necessary measures to address the current atmosphere of intimidation and impunity which allows for such acts to take place. All unlawfully detained people have to be released and perpetrators brought to justice." Two criminal cases involving Bulatov have been opened, one treats him as a victim of abduction, another as a suspect in criminal proceedings on mass riots. Hrushevskoho Street riots On 19 January 2014 at about 14:00 during a viche (veche: public meeting), one of the members of Automaidan Sergey Coba, who demanded that the leaders of the three opposition parties represented in parliament choose one of them as the resistance leader, was widely supported by the gathered people. If his demand was not met within half an hour Mr. Coba promised that Automaidan would go to the parliament building and peacefully picket it until parliamentary deputies cancel the "dictatorship laws". The demand was not met and Automaidan, Self-defence and thousands of viche supporters went to the parliament building via Hrushevskoho Street. The street was blocked by riot police and internal troops and before 15:40 when aggressive actions began. The same day at 16:00 Dmitry Bulatov posted a disclaimer on his Facebook page, saying that he, Serhij Poyarkov and Andrej Telizhenko were against unmotivated use of force, bloodshed, hadn't called on people to go to the parliament building and were trying to persuade Automaidan activists and other people to resist authority's provocations. Since end of Euromaidan In February 2014 Automaidan leader Dmytro Bulatov was appointed Minister for Youth and Sports in the first Yatsenyuk Government. the 2 December 2014 appointed second Yatsenyuk Government he did not return. In Odessa on 30 August 2015 Automaidan activists briefly occupied the estate of former MP Serhiy Kivalov to expose his wealth. On 31 October 2015 100 AutoMaidan vehicles protested at the mansion of president Petro Poroshenko demanding the resignation of Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. They accused Shokin of sabotaging corruption and the deaths of Euromaidan demonstrators investigations. Mid-February 2016 Automaidan activists from Zhytomyr blocked the passage of trucks with Russian registration plates at the Belarusian-Ukrainian border. Regional and other organizations The idea of a motorized socio-political protest force was