Exit for freedom

In Moscow on Lubyanskaya Square, participants in the action were detained for the liberation of the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko and other political prisoners. It is reported from the scene by the correspondent "faces".

More than 20 activists reached a flower bed, broken on the site of the demolished monument to Dzerzhinsky, and deployed two stretch marks. On one it was written "Freedom of Nadezhda" and a trident was drawn - the coat of arms of Ukraine. The inscription on another banner read "Freedom to Nadezhda Savchenko. Freedom to political prisoners." The demonstrators lit fire and smoke bombs and began to chant the slogans in support of Savchenko, Crimean prisoners and other political prisoners.

As the activist Vera Lavreshina told the “faces”, along with Savchenko and the Crimean prisoners - Oleg Sentsov, Alexander Kolchenko, Alexei Chirniy and Gennady Afanasyev - activists defended the Nizhny Novgorod Anarhist Ilya Romanov, organizer of the Kuban march of Daria Polyudova, Boris's publicists. Stomakhin and Sergey Kryukov, defendants in the case of hanging the German flag on the Kaliningrad UFSB Oleg Savvin, Mikhail Feldman and Dmitry Fonarev, the leader of the autonomous military terrorist organization Ivan Astashin. "These are all terrorists-extremist-leaning rakes," commented Lavreshin's list.

In addition, she continued, activists supported her comrades Mark Halperin, Ildar Dadin and Vladimir Ionov. Halperin, like Dadin, is now serving an administrative arrest for participating in protests. In addition, a criminal case has been instituted against Halperin and Ionov under Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code (repeated violations at rallies), which provides for up to five years of the colony.

Lavrashina also said that the participants in the action intend to advocate the aggression in Ukraine and the return of the annexed Crimea, as well as the places of Donetsk and Lugansk regions under the power of Kyiv, captured by pro -Russian terrorists.

However, the protesters were already awaited by the security forces, among whom was the operative of the 6th department of the Moscow CPE Alexei Obnny. Immediately after the start of the action, they began to detain the picketers. Parts of the demonstrators managed to hide, others were detained.

According to the OVD-Info, 11 people were detained in total. Among them Lavrashina, Ekaterina Maldon, Irina Kalmykova, Mikhail Vudmov, Alexander Shelkovenkov. The detainees were placed in two car cars and delivered to the OP "Tver".

Then the six detainees were taken to OP "Kitay-Gorod" and left for the night .

Later it became known that all the detainees in Tver were left for the night . Four of them issued protocols under Part 1 of Article 19.3 (disobedience to the legal request of the policeman) and part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the procedure for holding a public event). Meanwhile, Maldon, along with part 1 of Article 19.3, was charged not by part 5, but part 2 of Article 20.2 (the organization of a public event without notification). Part 2 of Article 20.2, unlike part 5, provides for an administrative arrest for up to 10 days as one of the sanctions; On the other hand, part 1 of article 19.3, imputed by all five, involves up to 15 days of arrest.

In any other police department, the detainees do not allow defenders.

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