Left Front activists beaten and accused of terrorism

managed to contact the Left Front activists detained in an apartment on Varshavskoe Highway in the morning: Andrei Kudryashev, Roman Sidorov, Evgeniy Popov and Alexander Shelkovenkov. They said that at about seven in the morning, officers from SOBR, FSB and Center “E” under the leadership of Alexei Okopny broke into their apartment, which they were renting, breaking down the front door. The activists were presented with a fresh search permit, issued by the district court at five in the morning. The grounds for the search were suspicion of Article 222 of the Criminal Code (illegal arms trafficking).

OVD-Info During the search, the activists’ “entire house was turned over”; no weapons were found, but mobile phones, two laptops and about eight thousand rubles were taken away. All this without drawing up papers. In addition, two activists were beaten in the apartment and then in the department. So, according to Alexander Shelkovenkov, he was first punched in the eye by a SOBR officer, then his colleague, putting a knife to his ear, said that he would now cut him off, but only made an incision. In addition, Alexander was beaten by the “eschnik” Alexei Okopny and the operative.

any “Zhenya-FSB” The employees accused the activists of terrorism and, wringing their hands, demanded that they confess (without specifics). The activists were taken from the apartment to the Nagorny police station, where communication continued in the same spirit. At about 18:00, all four were released from the police department, but on the way back to the apartment on Varshavskoye Shosse they were stopped by a police squad, who found the activists in their orientation, escorted them to the apartment and demanded that they stay there “while they think.”

At the moment, contact with the activists has been lost again; according to some information, the apartment could have been stormed again.