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Correspondent "Faces" is beaten into the police department
In the Moscow Department of Internal Affairs "Tverskoye", the Grani.ru correspondent Andrei Novichkov, detained on the Balaclaving shares, is beaten. According to newcomers by phone, the deputy chief of the ATS Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Nikitin strangled him, beat him on his stomach and feet, gave the "clicks" in the eye. The journalist was released at 23:30, four hours after the detention. He was returned to a flash card with a video seized by police.
In the same police department, the civil activist Vadim Dergachev is beaten. He told the Franes on the phone that he was also beaten by Lieutenant Colonel Nikitin and one of the employees of the 1st operational regiment. In the assembly hall of the ATS, where all the eight detainees were brought up, Nikitin began to rudely push one of the girls. When Dergachev asked him to introduce himself and explain the reasons for the detention and the use of violence, the activist was taken out the door and began to beat on his stomach and face, and foiled glasses. According to Dergachev, the lieutenant colonel provoked him to a fight, asking "Why aren't you hit me?" When Dergachev replied that he was ready to meet with Nikitin, when he would be in civilian clothes, the policeman suggested taking off the tunic. Dergachev was released about 23 hours, drawing up a protocol under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the rules of the rally). In the emergency room, he was diagnosed with bruises of the front abdominal wall, chest and lower leg. Dergachev will demand a criminal case against the police who beat him.
The seven participants in Balaclaving and Novichkov were detained at about 19:15 at the entrance to the Alexander Garden. Activists in chains and balaclavas went from Arbat Square along the boulevards to Pushkinskaya, and then to Manezhnaya Square, where they began to chant "freedom by political prisoners!" The participants of the action were detained in a harsh form.
Detention on Manezhnaya and conflict in the Department of Internal Affairs "Tver". Shooting Andrei Novichkov.
"Balaclaving" September 8
On September 1, Balaclaving participants were detained on Arbat Square. They did not have time to arrange a procession in chains to the Kremlin. On August 25, ten activists walked along color masks with slots from the monument from the monument Abay Kunanbaev to Pushkinskaya Square, where six of them were detained.
“Every Saturday we will get together and walk around our cities, informing the townspeople about the political prisoners of the Putin regime,” the campaign said. Its participants demand the release of the defendants in the "swamp business", Taisisi Osipova, participants in Pussy Riot and other political prisoners.
Dmitry Zykov video reports on the detention of previous shares in Balaclavas: