Cadrille with a police officer

Since the beginning of 2015, people who are defending the right to freedom of assembly in Russia have existed in a new reality - amendments that have entered into force last summer, tightening the punishment for violations of mass events, began to be successfully applied. This was preceded by mass detentions in Moscow on December 30. OVD-Info publishes the story of Elena Zakharova about the detentions of the last weeks.

12/30/2014 on Tverskaya after the sentence Navalny. They stood, riot policeman rudely, in the car Zakak, 22 people, the Voikovsky police department. They wanted to photograph us and take fingerprints, I called the ATS-info, consulted, and we refused. To the question "Why?" They answer: “And so that another time it was not necessary to do this,” lawyer Sergei Alexandrovich Minenkov came to us, thank him very much! Helped a lot. Designed and released without a protocol.

01/10/2015 We stood with single pickets on Manezhnaya. For Savchenko, against the war with Ukraine, and then Vladimir Ionov - "I am Charlie." He and Mark Galperin were taken away then, but Lavrov, the minister, who in Paris at that time showed tolerance on the same topic, was not taken away.

12/15/2015 on Manezhnaya. They stood silently, and around it was full of provocateurs with Colorado ribbons and hats. They yelled that we are fascists, we, four, were silent at first, then answered: "There will be no freedom, there would be a Maidan." A polite policeman took me to a car carrier, there were three with Colorado ribbons. I demanded to mark the time - 19.20. Soon the Colorado chief came, shone with a flashlight and released three. Then Ionov was brought, he said that he was just silent, and he was taken.

After about 20 minutes, I was taken to a car gear to my friends. Then the police came and the Galperin dragged very roughly, we shouted that he himself would come out, he did not resist ... his bag remained.

He generally only managed to get out of the subway and he was immediately taken away. When we were brought to the Meshchansky ATS, five or six policemen broke into the autozak, clung to Ildar Dadin and began to drag him, they fell closely, they fell, a heap, a wild sight, a pity that they did not take a picture, bewildered. The brand was taken to Ionov to take it to another place and plant. And Ildar was called an ambulance, because they damaged his neck and finger. The next day, they strangled in court.

Human rights activists arrived in the police department, brought a lot of water and food, helped us, thank you a lot! Three more strangers came with us, they were very surprised when they helped them and fed them.

The policeman who detained me waited and wrote a protocol of detention, where he had time and everything else, I did not resist and did not remember Navalny.

I will not pay fines anymore, I see no reason to buy a ticket for a picket.