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We are waiting for great and business
On Saturday evening, detentions were held on Trubnaya Square in Moscow. According to Gaskarov.info, a civil activist Vlad Tupikin, 8 people were with him, three of them with bicycles. At Trubnaya, at 22 hours, a bike racket was supposed to start in support of the anti -fascist Alexei Gaskarov and other political prisoners. The detainees were explained that they were checked for involvement in the "swamp business". They were delivered to the Meshchanskoye police department and after midnight were released without drawing up protocols.
According to journalist Yevgeny Levkovich, detention were carried out in a rough form. “The people on a pipe in a hard form twist riot police. For the fact that they ride bicycles. They are loaded into auto -zaks along with bicycles. Pretead -“ Punishment on the base, ”Levkovich wrote on Facebook.
The bike racket took place despite the detention. About 100 people took part in it.
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Bike racket in support of Gaskarov
The action lasted four hours, during which time activists drove about 40 kilometers. They shouted the slogans "Freedom to political prisoners!", "Freedom Gaskarov!" And with the help of stencils they left graffiti on the asphalt and walls of houses. Several times the bike racket stopped, the participants drove into the park or square to relax. At the same time, they extinguished the lanterns on bicycles. Despite these precautions, the police found vacationing activists in the square at the Novodevichy Monastery. The participants in the bikes managed to hide, the police detained several cyclists in the square, which were not related to the action. In order to get away from the police officer, the participants in the bike racket moved away from the intended route and drove through the territory of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Pedestrian Patriarchal bridge. Because of this, the police temporarily lost their bike racket from sight.
During the bike racket, none of the activists was detained. Participants wanted to complete the action in Gorky Park and attach to the action "Occupy Gorky". But the park turned out to be closed, the guard did not let anyone inside under the pretext of cleaning.
"He (bike racket. - Ed.) Need to meet all, discuss the latest news, exchanged stickers and stencils in defense of political prisoners, collected money for lawyers and went to ride in the night Moscow, simultaneously exchanging our thoughts about the events that were currently unfolding," the organizers explained on the Facebook campaign.
On Saturday afternoon in Moscow, a city bicycle bicycle bicycle bicycle was held in Moscow.
Gaskarov is a well -known anti -fascist, defender of the Khimkinsky and Tsagovsky forests, a member of the Coordinating Council of the opposition and the People’s Council of Zhukovsky. On April 29, Gaskarov was detained. He became the 28th person involved in the "swamp business". According to the Investigative Committee, on May 6, 2012, in the Gaskarov Bolotnaya Square, he led a group of persons who took an active part in the riots. " He was also charged with beating a riot police. The testimony of Gaskarov was given by a fighter Igor Ibatulin , previously convicted of perjury. Gaskarov himself was greatly beaten on Bolotnaya, but the TFR refused to look for the guilty. In support of the "Swamp prisoners" runs ,walks , concerts, pickets and other promotions are held.