Struggle against opponents of hostilities

At least 361 people were illegally detained on March 2 in Moscow during anti -war spontaneous actions. During the detention and then the ATS recorded a lot of gross violations, including many detainees, spent long hours in unheated buses. So, the detainees delivered to the Basmannaya police department were kept in a cold bus for four hours, without letting go. Among the detainees was the mother of the baby. At the Yakimanka police department, the detainees were on the bus for more than 8 hours, while from three to nine o’clock - at the police department.

In general, they delayed very hard, especially on Manezhnaya Square, including women and elderly people. They tried to detain an elderly woman with a crutch, in response to the indignation of citizens, one of the riot police confusedly said that they tried to help her go down the pedestal. One of the detainees was damaged by a finger.

In one of the buses, in which the detainees on Manezhnaya Square were located, one person was beaten. According to other detainees, one of the employees participating in the beating had a token No. 008838.

In many police department, a number of detainees without any reason wrote in the protocols an article on disobedience to the legal requirements of police officers (19.3) and left at night. The lawyers did not always manage to achieve the liberation of the detainees. So, in the Khamovniki police department, where all the detainees were charged with 19.3, they did not want to let anyone go, referring to a certain team of leadership. The detainees were going to leave the Luzhniki for the night with an article that did not provide for administrative arrest, but they released after the intervention of the defender - as a result, the deadline for the detention of three hours was exceeded multiplying. In the Izmailovo police department, 10 people were registered at 20.2, but they were not released and, moreover, they kept standing, not allowing them to sit down, including a man much older than seventy years. In general, the deadlines were significantly exceeded in almost all the ATS. In the Presnensky police department, 11 detainees were sent to the Communist Party and began to rewrite the protocols from 20.2 to 19.3. All of them were left overnight.

In total, 67 detainees of 361 were left at night. It should be noted that according to the testimonies of the detainees themselves, lawyers and members of the socially observation committee, the ATS in which the detainees were left for the night, the necessary conditions for detention and nutrition were not provided.

In the Department of Internal Affairs of Maryina Grove, where people from the bus were also not allowed for a long time, they were not allowed to transfer water and food to the detainees. They did not accept the program for the detainees in the ATS “Western Degunino”. In the Arbat ATS, the detainees who did not have a passport with them were forced to dactiloscopy, despite the fact that this procedure according to the law can be carried out by detained in administrative cases only after the trial in a special cost.

According to the group of assistance to the detainees , 31 people were detained in St. Petersburg on March 1.