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June 12: violations in police stations
On June 12, at least 1,769 people were detained at protests in 31 cities. During a conversation with detainees, operators of the OVD-Info hotline recorded massive violations of the rights of detainees by police officers. At the moment, we have checked most of the reports of violations directly in police departments, and we can confidently talk about at least 109 serious violations of the law in 46 police departments, including 59 violations recorded in St. Petersburg and 33 violations in Moscow.
Violations of the right to defense were recorded in 12 police stations—lawyers and defenders were not allowed into the stations.
In at least 10 departments, the conditions of detention of detainees did not comply with Russian legislation, in another 14 cases, detainees were not provided with food at all or were not provided in accordance with the regulations established by the Russian government, in 4 departments the right to medical care was violated (refusal to call an ambulance or transfer of medicines).
In at least 6 departments, detainees were threatened by police officers or people in plain clothes, and in another 5 cases, detainees were insulted. In 6 departments they were forced to undergo fingerprinting. In 5 departments, mobile phones were taken away.
In 15 departments, procedural violations were recorded when drawing up protocols. In at least 6 cases, police officers refused to give detainees copies of reports.
Detainees from 6 departments complained to OVD-Info about an unreasonably long period of detention in a paddy wagon—up to 6 hours.
From another 6 departments - for violation of procedural terms of detention.
It should be noted that this is only a small part of the violations: we publish only those cases that the detainees themselves reported directly on June 12-13 hotline to the OVD-Info and confirmed to us in the following days during the cross-check process.
We continue to collect and analyze violations in police departments on June 12-14 . If you were detained and your rights were violated at the police station, please let us know by filling out a simple form .
Provisions violated in relation to those detained on June 12
Prepared by Denis Shedov, lawyer at the Memorial Human Rights Center
Part 2 Art. 48 of the Constitution : Every person detained, taken into custody, or accused of committing a crime has the right to have the assistance of a lawyer (defender) from the moment of detention, detention or arraignment.
Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of April 16, 2012 N 301 “On approval of the regulations on conditions of detention, food standards and the procedure for medical care of detained persons in the territorial bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation”:
— Detainees located in special premises are located on benches (sofas).
— Persons detained for more than 3 hours are provided with a place to sleep, bedding and linens at night.
— The removal of detained persons from a special room for the exercise of natural needs is carried out at their request one by one, accompanied by police officers.
— Persons detained for a period of more than 3 hours are provided with food according to the food standard for suspects and accused of committing crimes who are in pre-trial detention centers of the Federal Penitentiary Service, in temporary detention centers for suspects and accused of the internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation and border agencies of the Federal Security Service, persons subjected to administrative arrest, for peacetime, approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of April 11, 2005 N 205 “On the minimum standards of nutrition and material support for those sentenced to imprisonment, as well as on the standards of nutrition and material support for suspects and accused of committing crimes held in pre-trial detention centers of the Federal Penitentiary Service, in temporary detention centers for suspects and accused of the internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation and border agencies of the Federal Security Service, persons subject to administrative arrest in peacetime.” (As amended by the resolution of the Russian government dated 26.11.2013 N 1069).
— If it is impossible to provide hot food, persons detained for more than 3 hours are provided with food according to rations established in accordance with Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of April 11, 2005 N 205.
— The norm for sanitary space in a special room intended to accommodate detained persons is 4 square meters per person.
— During the heating season, the temperature in special rooms is maintained at no lower than 18 degrees Celsius.
— Organization of medical assistance to a detained person is carried out by police officers immediately at the request of this person.
paragraph "g" art. 9 Federal Law “On state fingerprint registration in the Russian Federation” dated July 25, 1998 N 128-FZ : The following are subject to mandatory state fingerprint registration: ... g) citizens of the Russian Federation, foreign citizens and stateless persons: suspected of committing a crime, accused of committing a crime, those convicted of committing a crime and subjected to administrative arrest; who have committed an administrative offense, if it is impossible to establish their identity in any other way.
Art. 27.10 Code of Administrative Offenses: During arrest, it is allowed to confiscate only things that were instruments of committing or objects of an administrative offense.
part 6 art. 28.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses : The individual or legal representative of the legal entity against whom a case of an administrative offense has been initiated, as well as the victim, is given a copy of the protocol on the administrative offense against signature.
part 7 art. 5 Federal Law “On the Police” : The police are obliged to provide every citizen with the opportunity to become familiar with documents and materials that directly affect his rights and freedoms, unless otherwise provided by federal law.
Part 2 Art. 28.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences: The protocol on an administrative offense shall indicate the date and place of its preparation, position, surname and initials of the person who compiled the protocol, information about the person against whom the case of an administrative offense has been initiated, surnames, first names, patronymics, residential addresses of witnesses and victims , if there are witnesses and victims, the place, time of commission and event of the administrative offense, an article of this Code or the law of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation providing for administrative liability for this administrative offense, an explanation of the individual or legal representative of the legal entity against whom the case was initiated, other information necessary to resolve the case).
Part 2 Art. 27.2 Code of Administrative Offences : Delivery must be made as soon as possible.
Part 4 Art. 27.5 of the Administrative Code : The period of administrative detention of a person is calculated from the moment of delivery in accordance with Article 27.2.
Cruel treatment
Saint Petersburg
OP 33
The cells were filled with pepper gas due to the fact that the gas, in violation of the law, was used on one of the non-political detainees.
Beating
Moscow
Presnensky
A detainee from a support group that came to the police department was detained, beaten and his phone was broken.
Medicine
Saint Petersburg
OP 55
They didn't let me take my medicine.
OP 64
Medicines were not given.
OP 28
The detainee informed the police that he had a third group disability, a chronic disease, and asked not to confiscate his jacket, because he could get sick in one night in the cold. But the police ignored these requests. There are 6 people in the cell, three mattresses, one blanket and a strong smell of urine. By morning, all the people in the cell felt unwell—they had runny noses. It was very cold at night. The police called an ambulance only after human rights activists contacted the police department and told them about the detainee’s illness. I went to the hospital with two police officers. First they put him in the ward, then they laid out a cot in the corridor to make it easier for the police to keep an eye on him. Then they moved us again to another place in the corridor, because the police still felt uncomfortable here. At the same time, the hospital was full of empty beds in the wards. In the medical statement, the doctors first wrote only that the patient considered himself sick, and only under pressure from the will they entered real medical data (pneumonia).
OP 33
Refusal to call an ambulance for people suffocating from gas, including a person suffering from asthma.
Time spent in a paddy wagon
Moscow
Ryazansky
They kept me in a paddy wagon for about an hour and a half in front of the entrance to the police department.
Butyrsky
They didn’t let me out of the paddy wagon for 5–6 hours.
Kaliningrad
Western LU of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia on transport
We stood in the paddy wagon for about four hours.
Saint Petersburg
OP 74
They kept me on the bus for three hours.
OP 28
We were driven around the city in a paddy wagon for about 5 hours.
OP 23
They kept me for two hours in front of the department in a Gazelle and did not let me go to the toilet.
Barring the lawyer
Moscow
Marfino
They did not let the lawyer in for 2.5 hours.
Ryazansky
They delayed the admission of a lawyer as much as possible.
Strictly
Lawyer Vera Makarova and defense attorney Sergei Ozhich were expelled from the police department. This coincided with the arrival of Investigative Committee employees to the department.
South Tushino
They wouldn't let the lawyer in.
Saint Petersburg
OP 14
Lawyers were not allowed in.
OP 18
They wouldn't let the lawyer in.
OP 74
Lawyers and public defenders were not allowed in.
OP 12
They didn't let the defender in.
OP 51
The defenders were not allowed in.
OP 29
They did not allow a lawyer to pass through, although the detainees said on the phone that they needed a lawyer. Some policewoman said that she had just visited the detainees and they told her that they did not need a defense lawyer - although they said on the phone that no one had visited them. Two girls from among the detainees were taken out of the police department separately by a man in civilian clothes. to either the girls, or the defender, or anyone At the same time , he did not explain anything else. The defense lawyer, assuming that the girls were being taken to court, tried to give them a form of a request to postpone the hearing. The man who was leading the detainees out tried in every possible way to prevent this, and then he called on other police officers for help.
OP 60
They wouldn't let the lawyer in.
OP 15
They wouldn't let the lawyer in.
Taking away your passport
Blagoveshchensk
MO Ministry of Internal Affairs Blagoveshchensky
One of the detainees had his passport taken away by force.
Velikiy Novgorod
OP 1
All detainees were aggressively and without explanation required to hand over their passports.
Other
Moscow
Lyublino
The father was not allowed to see the minor.
Blagoveshchensk
MO Ministry of Internal Affairs Blagoveshchensky
An unknown person in civilian clothes called them “clowns.” Then he gave the detainee the pictures and immediately told another policeman to take his photo. But the detainee quickly removed the pictures from his hands - they depicted Alexey Navalny. Then the man said: “Why have you abandoned your leader?”
Gatchina
Internal Affairs Directorate of the Gatchina District
They tried to interrogate me in a criminal case regarding the events of March 27. (Arson of the car).
Protocols
Moscow
Falcon
The protocols were made identical for everyone; there were uncrossed empty lines left in them.
South Tushino
The protocols were not drawn up by the same officers who detained them.
Lyublino
The arrest report does not indicate who detained him, when and under what circumstances. The sheets of the protocol are not stapled.
Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo
They tried to force me to write in my own hand an undertaking to appear at the police station the next day to draw up a report.
Kosino-Ukhtomsky
They wrote things in the protocols that did not correspond to what was happening on Tverskaya. The protocols were rewritten several times. One of the policemen said: “Your offense is a rally.”
Shchukino
One of the detainees was given a protocol under Article 20.2 Part 8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for repeated violations at rallies, although the previous administrative punishment had not yet entered into force.
Saint Petersburg
OP 59
The registration is not done by the same police officers who detained you.
OP 28
The protocols were drawn up as carbon copies, only the names were different.
OP 24
The protocols appeared only two days later, before the trial.
OP 74
The time of detention was distorted by three hours.
OP 14
More than six hours, including in cells, without drawing up a protocol.
OP 51
No protocols were issued.
OP 23
Containment for more than three hours without protocols.
OP 18
They offered to sign protocols where there was no room for comments. They threatened that if they didn’t sign, they would leave me overnight. .
Kaliningrad
Western LU of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia on transport
The police drew up completely identical arrest reports.
Taking away phones
Saint Petersburg
OP 15
They forcibly confiscated everyone’s phones; one of the detainees was even stripped of his underpants while searching for his phone. The names of the detainees with telephone numbers were transferred to the OP from the police hotline - where the detainees complained.
OP 59
During the interview, a “particularly emotional policeman” snatched the phone from the detainee’s hands, took it to the duty station and threw it somewhere with a loud bang. Then it turned out that the phone had become unusable.
Moscow
Kosino-Ukhtomsky
They tried to rewrite the IEMI numbers of the detainees’ mobile phones. They were not allowed to talk on mobile phones.
Vladivostok
OP 4
Not allowed to use the phone
Blagoveshchensk
MO Ministry of Internal Affairs Blagoveshchensky
Two unknown men in civilian clothes shouted and used obscene language and demanded that the phones be turned off.
Insult
Saint Petersburg
OP 55
The detainees were rude to people in civilian clothes, as it turned out - employees of the “E” center.
OP 74
The detainee was rude to people in civilian clothes who took photographs of her and her passport.
Moscow
Shchukino
The district police officer who was drawing up the protocols made dirty jokes about one of the detainees like, “Do you smoke? Women who smoke only end up with cancer,” he suggested that they undress and be left alone.
Blagoveshchensk
MO Ministry of Internal Affairs "Blagoveshchensky"
A police officer tried to humiliate the minor detainee and asked her why she needed a piercing.
Conditions of detention
Saint Petersburg
OP 12
The four who were left overnight were kept in the corridor, in the light, there was no place to lie, they sat all night.
OP 35
We spent the night in the waiting room, where there were only two chairs. Bed linen was not provided. It was very cold and smelled bad. As a result, the detainees did not sleep for two nights - the first night in the department it was uncomfortable to sleep, and on the night of June 13-14 there were trials, then people were returned to the department and fingerprinted, only on the afternoon of June 14 did the detainees end up in cells in a special detention center.
OP 74
They were presented with a fait accompli: either they would lay out mattresses in the cells, or they would have to sleep without beds in the assembly hall.
OP 59
No bedding was provided.
OP 24
The conditions of detention were extremely poor, there were 20 people in a room, bed linen was not provided, and only ⅔ of the detainees could sleep lying down.
OP 18
There were no sleeping places.
OP 64
40 detainees per 20 square meters, very cold, only chairs for furniture, nowhere to sleep and nothing to sleep on.
OP 33
After the gas was sprayed, 17 people were transferred to the basement, where there were only chairs and “ribbed beds” on which it was impossible to sleep.
OP 15
They kept three people in cells, no linen. Foam was provided to place on the bench inside the chamber. There was a constant smell of urine in the cells.
Moscow
Alekseevsky
Three people were left to sleep on the street because there was not enough space in the police department.
Threats
Saint Petersburg
OP 35
The head of the department threatened to add three days and something “fix” because the detainee called an ambulance. The police threatened those who did not sign the protocols with consequences.
OP 28
In 28 OPs they were assigned to detectives who carried out the survey. For the entire 15–20 minutes, the operative kept shouting, using obscene language, insulting, and threatening. When they moved the weapons from the safes, he said: “I’ll shoot him here now.” He threw away his passport and tried to include some of his comments in the explanation. They took him to take a photograph - one policeman was holding him, one was holding a sign with a number, and one was taking a photograph. During the search, the interrogating policeman was very interested in whether the detainee had recorded their conversation on a voice recorder.
Blagoveshchensk
MO Ministry of Internal Affairs Blagoveshchensky
The police promised the detainees that they would make them run 5 kilometers and do push-ups.
MO Ministry of Internal Affairs "Blagoveshchensky"
The minor and her parents were threatened with a fine of 10 thousand, registration with the commission for minors, and the possibility of punishing the parents for not fulfilling their parental responsibilities well.
Moscow
Cheryomushki
They threatened me with physical violence for asking questions during the preparation of the protocol.
Novogireevo
The police officers told one of the detainees: “We have an order to lock someone up for 10 days.”
Food
Saint Petersburg
OP 35
They didn't feed me. Volunteers brought food; the police confiscated some of the food and kept it for themselves.
OP 24
They didn’t give us any food; all the food came from human rights activists. On the second day, police officers did not accept parcels for the detainees for an hour and a half, arguing that they already had a lot of food (in fact, there was a lot of water and very little food).
OP 64
No hot food was given.
OP 59
The employees refused to feed the detainees.
OP 14
No food was given.
OP 49
Hot meals were not provided.
OP 74
For two days they only gave us Doshirak.
OP 54
They were not given food or water.
OP 12
They fed once every 28 hours.
OP 28
When asked to feed, the police responded: “There is someone to feed you. You understand who I'm talking about."
OP 15
When asked to eat, they said, “Either noodles (instant) or nothing.” When asking for water, the department assistant on duty said: “Learn to ask for water.” The police did not hand over parcels from relatives for a long time.
Blagoveshchensk
MO Ministry of Internal Affairs Blagoveshchensky
The detainees were not given water.
Moscow
Voikovsky
Major Lisitsyn refused to hand over water and food to the detainees.
Airport
They did not accept water and food, citing orders from their superiors.
Copies of the protocol
Saint Petersburg
OP 15
The protocol was not issued.
OP 64
They were extradited almost a day after the arrest.
OP 55
They didn't issue it.
Moscow
South Tushino
They did not provide copies of the protocol.
Lyublino
The detainee was denied a copy of the protocol.
Falcon
They didn’t give me copies; they only let me read the protocols quickly.
Exceeding time
Saint Petersburg
OP 86
More than four hours without registration.
85 department of Petrodvortsovo district
Eight people waited 24 hours for the protocols. They delayed the registration of detainees.
Moscow
Kosino-Ukhtomsky
They kept me there for more than three hours.
Donskoy
Hold for more than three hours.
Fingerprinting
Moscow
Donskoy
They required us to take photographs and give fingerprints.
Alekseevsky
The detained German Trautwein was forced to undergo fingerprinting, citing the fact that he was allegedly illegally in Russia - they incorrectly entered him into the database. They denied him the opportunity to give the keys to the apartment to his friends so that they would bring his registration.
Ryazansky
They forced me to undergo fingerprinting, citing the fact that this would allow me to be released faster.
Shchukino
Fingerprinting was not required, but at the same time they tried to collect statements from everyone about refusing fingerprinting.
Vykhino
They threatened to hold me for 48 hours for refusing to give fingerprints.
Saint Petersburg
OP 64
They took fingerprints and took photographs.
Duration of detention
Saint Petersburg
OP 64
More than 6 hours without registration.
OP 15
They kept me there for a day and a half despite the fact that I have a small child.
OP 14
As a result, they held it for 10 hours.
Moscow
Cheryomushki
They detained him at the police station so that he wouldn’t end up on the metro.
Ryazansky
They tried to detain people at the police station so that they would not get on the metro.
Nizhny Tagil
OP 16
Initially, the detainee was taken to the Intermunicipal Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Nizhny Tagil, and only then to OP 16. The police wanted to record the time of delivery to OP 16 as the moment of detention in order to meet deadlines.