Detained Solidarity (St. Petersburg) activist complains about tortured conditions in a paddy wagon

Co-chairman of the St. Petersburg “Solidarity (SPb)” Konstantin Ershov, in Moscow at the Nemtsov Memorial March, has been kept in a paddy wagon for more than two hours. The activist himself reported this to the hotline.

detainee OVD-Info According to him, they allegedly stopped at the Tverskoy OVD, but they did not let him out of the paddy wagon. Only one of the police officers identified himself, while there are about ten “working” with the paddy wagon. Two people are sitting inside. Ershov asked them to drink water (the activist has diabetes), but his words were ignored. “They don’t react to me at all, they sit silently. No water, no use of the toilet - no answer. The conditions already resemble torture,” says Ershov. He added that a man in civilian clothes came into the paddy wagon and began asking him questions, but when Ershov demanded to introduce himself, he left.