Under red umbrellas

On December 17, the International Day of Protection of Sex Workers from Violence and Cruelty is celebrated (International Day to violence Against Sex Workers ), the initiator of the organizations acting in defense of the rights of sex workers "(SEX works ' ' Rights Advocacy Network , Swan). The impetus for the affirmation of the Protection Day was a series of murders of prostitutes by maniac Gary Ridgeue . On this day, all those who are not indifferent to the problem of discrimination of sex workers go to the streets with red umbrellas. In St. Petersburg, such an action was carried out by activists of the Silver Rosa, unifying sex workers.

Police raids, bandits raids, the existence of Article 6.11 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, social insecurity-this is the reality in which today there are sex workers in Russia. According to official statistics, there are more than a million people, and according to the estimates of human rights activists from the Silver Rose movement, three times more. Recently, acts of violence from the “fighters for morality” have become more frequent , an intimidation action, an “anti-collar raid”, which was held in St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg, during which he under the threat of beating brought a group of naked sex workers in St. Petersburg. Activists of the Silver Rose movement, conducting their action dedicated to the International Day of the Protection of Sex Workers, paid close attention to this incident. Here are the sex worker’s story they provided about the visit of Datsik to one of the salons of St. Petersburg.

The police threatened that everyone would tell her eight -year -old daughter if she does not sign the protocol

“Datsik with a man in a black cloak came in. Such a man in a leather cloak, blond hair, Slavic appearance, ordinary and inexpressive. The men went into the room. They brought them to the show of three girls, Datsik jumped up and immediately began to yell“ whores infectious ”,“ creatures ”. He ordered everyone not to move, stand still, and he went to the kitchen. Dacie - a huge muzhik, and his resistance to him. It was impossible to provide us to the kitchen, and Datsik returned to the room, collected the administrator and handbags of all the girls And he scared us, then he began to call for some kind of TV and he was refused, and he called the district police officer, who came, began to ask for a passport, and we did not have a car with him. We began to yell very loudly to us, when I changed clothes, I saw this police officer on the background of the girls, along with Datsik! It was only one thing to end with my colleague, the girl who was with my eight -year -old daughter can be gone and can go home, if she didn’t sign the protocol.

The head of the Silver Rose project, which is engaged in the prevention of HIV infection, infections transmitted sexually by sex workers and their customers, Natalia Zamanskaya , to the question of which forms of violence are most common in relation to sex workers, answers:

We have some kind of "folk squads", people who did not take the oath, some obscure assistants

"These are unreasonable arrests, humiliations, signing of protocols. We have a 2nd article of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which regulates the inviolability of a private, personal life. We have no equal sex with a criminal, administrative crime. Accordingly, it is not clear that they are purchased. How can you purchase sex ... And if you can purchase sex, let’s develop a article in the right of consumer. “Poor Services” does not exist in the administrative Article 6.11 that such a sexual work is made by sex work, accordingly, they have the right to delay the pre-trial detention center The girls who are not from the Passport, they will immediately sign the protocol. The doors on the wrong basis, as we see on the video with Datsik. There are no naked women on the floor. Because they are very vulnerable to them as a taxpayer, I do not understand the meaning of this work. The article is not possible to get out of the sphere, it is not possible to find a decent job with a list of people with this article - whether you have received this article or not. And she did not go to medical support, that someone was infected in the salon, and after three months she died from the infection, because there is criminalization, active discrimination of sex workers. Sex work shows that there is one country, Portugal, where this problem is resolved there. It will solve, naturally. "

Here is another evidence of the visit to the salon of the so -called. "Fighter for morality" Vyacheslav Datsik:

“The client entered our salon, he chose the girls. It turned out that he was looking at us, five or six people entered us. They all started screaming. We had terrible stress. They all started to break the furniture, throw out the window. We had to say about the guard that he was a client, otherwise they would have been crumpled. They didn’t let us go into our clothes. окно. Обзывали. Наш ремонтник оставил емкость с клеем, они облили им нас, мы все стали липкими. Потом приехала полиция. Не знаю, кто ее вызвал. Мы смогли немного одеться. Полиция стала требовать наши паспорта. Я свой паспорт нашла на улице. Он лежал под окнами. Когда я искала паспорт под окнами, увидела рядом Стаса Барецкого , я сразу его узнала. Он стоял и болтал с полицейскими. Когда We came to the police about what happened.

When asked if there is a Petersburg specificity in such stories, Natalia Zamanskaya replies:

In Russia, a mother with two children, after the loss of the breadwinner, receives 14,000 rubles per month. How can you, getting such money, raise two children? What should she do?

"This is a port city. There are many students. Now the education is paid. There are women who are for forty, because it is quite difficult to get a job at this age. In Russia, a mother who has two children, after the loss of the breadwinner, gets 14,000 rubles a month. How can I, getting such money, raise two children? What to do? Give it to a boarding school? It is clear that it is clear that it is impossible to change everything in the Russian state for the best. But why punish these. After all, we are not talking about the girls who are serving the oligarchs, they do not fall into such articles at all, we can be a keeper, but you can’t frankly recognize yourself with a sex worker.

-What is the situation with violence against men of sex workers in St. Petersburg?

"Here is even tougher. Naturally, if it is a transgender or representative of the gay community, and often boys work in a salon with women when police raids come or when raiders come, humiliation and physical violence with respect to them are more common. They are simply beaten. There are terrible beatings. Since it is double stigmatization, double discrimination. And these people do not turn to the police and to the police and to the police and to the police and to the police and to the police and to the police and these Courts ".

Vyacheslav Datsik held his shares not only in St. Petersburg, but also in the suburbs. Here is another certificate of sex workers:

“This happened in early May near Gatchina. Strange calls began to the administrator. He understood that something was wrong. We had no light on the street and there were no cameras. And it was not visible a person who came to us. Then we came in a few more. We did not recognize them, but the administrator said that this was Dacik. Those who managed, hidden. They didn’t cause physical damage. But I was very terribly scared. I was very terribly frightened. I could not find me upstairs, but when they began to break the furniture and destroyed something to me, and they said that we are bad people, that we spread the AIDS and posted it on the Internet. боялась, что ее увидят. Их было трое. Потом нас всех согнали в одно место на третьем этаже. Пришли еще двое. До приезда полиции они разнесли полдома, сломали мебель, устроили бардак. Потом приехала полиция и стали всех забирать в одно отделение. А мы с одной девчонкой сумели убежать, пока всех выводили. Спрятались за забором и ушли. А девушек увезли. Они провели в Five hours later, after three or four, they came from the police and forced the girls to sign the paper that there would be nothing in this place and this place was then closed. ”

Now the activists of the Silver Rose are preparing an appeal to the governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko. The head of the movement Irina Maslova said that one of the main points of this appeal will be a call - to stop police raids:

Today they are raped and naked put on the street alone, and tomorrow they will rape and exhibit others

“We really want to invite deputies, sane deputies, to invite the city authorities so that people who make decisions realize that police raids and crimes that are committed by police officers provoke violence in the city. And I understand that the legislative and executive power can take a number of actions, having heard us. You have heard stories that living people told us five times a day. And it is very important that people, people, people, people, people. which are determined by the laws of this city, we are ready to help the situation, because if the state does not protect the weakest, it is not defended by naked and naked, and tomorrow they will rape and exhibit others. Three million people are standing with their backs, women were chosen by the inhabitants of this city Dialogs are able to change what we see today. "