A raid on teenagers took place in Krasnoyarsk

March 12, 2005 in Krasnoyarsk at about 19.00 on the street. Krasnoflotskaya was pulled together by 8 police outfits, which for no apparent reason took away teenagers who appeared on the street. According to various estimates, a total of 50 to 70 teenagers aged 15-18 were detained.

According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the police acted on the basis of operational information that " "a large group of teenagers with an unspecified purpose should gather in the Leninsky district of Krasnoyarsk in the evening . Teenagers were detained "in order to prevent violations of public order" . According to a representative of the Leninsky district police department, they also received a signal about "some act that a large group of young people can carry out in the Leninsky district . "

The detainees claim that they were just walking down the street past the police department when they were seized and, together with other teenagers who had been detained earlier, were "put up against the wall" . A few hours later, all the teenagers were released without explanation "under the receipt of their parents." The mother of one of the detainees, on condition of anonymity, said that her son was beaten at the police department and forced to confess that he was "a skinhead and incited him to go smash the Azerbaijanis . "

In their official statement on the events, representatives of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate do not cite the article on which the arrest was made, human rights activists who commented on the events on the human rights hotline in Siberia note.

Sources

• Police raid in Krasnoyarsk: Dozens of teenagers detained // IA New Region. 2005. March 14.
• From the Tver region and Krasnoyarsk there are reports of police sweeps similar to Blagoveshchensk // NEWSru.com. 2005. March 14.