With ears and cut off

In Moscow, at 7 in the morning, the FSB operatives and the E-E-E-Sobr center came with a search of an apartment where there were activists of the Left Front Andrei Kudryashov, Roman Sidorov, Evgeny Popov and Alexander Shelkovenkov, the Department of Internal Affairs reports . Activists were presented with permission to search the district court at 5 in the morning. The basis for the search was a suspicion under Article 222 of the Criminal Code (illegal turnover of weapons). Article 205 of the Criminal Code (terrorism) was also verbally mentioned.

When searching for weapons, activists were not found. The operatives seized phones, two laptops and about eight thousand rubles. At the same time, they did not compose any documents.

Two activists were beaten. According to Shelkovenkov, he first hit a collection of a brothers in his eye, then the other put a knife to his ear, said that he would cut off now, and made an incision. In addition, Alexander was beaten by the TSPE operative Alexei Obnoy and the operative, known under the nickname "Zhenya FSB." Activists were demanded to confess to terrorism, without putting down specific accusations.

Then the activists were taken to the police department. About 18 hours they were released. However, on the way back they were again detained by the police outfit. Police accompanied the activists to the apartment and demanded not to leave her. Later they returned the seized documents and advised activists to change the apartment, since in this area they are "in all orientations."

Recently, reports about the new persecution of activists of the Left Front began to appear. So, on April 29, searches were held in the apartments of parents and the 92-year-old grandmother of the coordinator of the Tula branch of the Left Front Dmitry Karasev . At this time, he was in another place. On May 1, in Tula, during the coordinated Pervomaisky demonstration, employees of the Center for Combating Extremism detained Karasev and four more LF activists . They were delivered to the police department and drew up a protocol under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the rules for holding rallies).