Translated material
Revenge on the blogger
... a few days before the large-scale protest action on Bolotnaya Square, there was a “horror story” circulating online that young people of military age who came to an opposition rally would be taken away by the police and forcibly sent to the military registration and enlistment office, and from there directly to the army. People were making fun of this on the Internet, but in vain. This Saturday they treated the notorious Syktyvkar blogger Pavel Safronov aka onchoys in exactly this way harshly.
A year ago, he became famous throughout the country for the fact that the prosecutor's office of the Komi Republic opened a criminal case against him for calling Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin a “faggot” in his blog.
In response, the blogger officially wrote down the following complaint, which made law enforcement officials look idiotic:
The criminal case was dropped. But the sediment, as they say, remains. And a year later he, so to speak, was “revenged.”
The police had been “herding” him since the morning. What Pavel Safronov wrote about shortly before leaving home in his LiveJournal:“Unknown people are walking around my house, talking on the phone. You can be sure that there are usually no unknown people in my area at this time.”
The blogger was detained as soon as he left the entrance. This is how his friend Alexander Kikot describes what happened on the local portal “7x7”:
“At about 5 p.m., Pavel Safronov called me and said that he had been detained by police officers and taken to the military registration and enlistment office. Arriving there with Igor Sazhin, I tried to get inside and clarify the situation. The doorbell was answered by a woman’s voice, which answered my questions that “there are no Safronovs here, and the military registration and enlistment office is not working.” I called again and asked to be connected with management. The female voice, having said something not entirely understandable, stopped talking to me. I called Pavel and asked if he was really at the Syktyvkar military registration and enlistment office and, having received an affirmative answer, began banging on the door again. A few minutes later, a police “loaf” arrived at the building. I explained to the employees who came out that my acquaintance was being forcibly detained at the military registration and enlistment office, in violation of the law, for which purpose I called Safronov and turned on the speakerphone and asked him if he had gotten there voluntarily. Safronov replied that they took him there by force, and 10 minutes after delivery they made a decision on his conscription, and at the moment they were going to take him through the yard in a passenger car to the recruiting station in Yemva.
After what was said, I ran to the gates of the military registration and enlistment office, the police ran after me. Seeing a car leaving, I stood on the roadway, obstructing its movement. The car slowed down. Sazhin approached and tried to open the back door. The door was locked. Turning around, I saw that three police patrol crews had approached us from nowhere... (the police officers who came out turned out to be about 10 people!!!).
Turning to one of the employees, I demanded to intervene... and reported that Safronov was deprived of his freedom and was being held by force. The policeman demanded that the driver open the front door of the car. When the door opened, I again demanded that the employees intervene in the situation, since in this situation there are compelling reasons to believe that there is abuse of authority, after which, looking into the car, I asked whether Safronov was being held against his will. In response, Pavel’s voice was heard from the darkness of the tinted car that he was being held forcibly and there was no medical examination.
After that, a hand extended out of the car, holding an unfolded ID card of an officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan. After which the officer ordered the policemen who surrounded us to take me to the station in order to receive my statement about the illegal detention of Safronov, and also said that since conscript Safronov was evading conscription, he, as an officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, decided to personally deliver him to the recruiting station in Emva city. After several minutes of pointless attempts to explain the fact of the excess, the road had to be cleared. The car left..."
I personally know Pasha a little. We met a year ago, when in December 2010, at the invitation of the Syktyvkar newspaper “Krasnoe Znamya”, with which he collaborated, I flew to the capital of Komi for a day to take part in the award ceremony for the best bloggers of the republic. Among the nominees was Safronov aka onchoys . Quite an adequate guy of 22 years old. Yes, he is an oppositionist, but who among normal young people today is not an oppositionist?
... on the morning of Monday, December 12, the blogger continues to be in a stronghold in the village of Yemva, from where he should be sent to a military unit.
In general, the law enforcement agencies of the Komi Republic have long been famous for their special love for Internet users. Let me remind you that it was here, in Syktyvkar, three years ago, for the first time in Russia, that a blogger received a criminal sentence. The pioneer was Savva Terentyev aka terentyev . The court gave him a suspended year for “inciting hatred and enmity against the social group “police officers” for a comment in someone else’s LiveJournal, in which Terentyev called for “burning infidel cops on Stefanovskaya Square.”
p.s. .. and a protest rally against election fraud, which Safronov did not attend, was harshly dispersed by the police in Syktyvkar . Several dozen people were detained. And this despite the fact that in almost all other Russian regions where protests took place, people were not touched.