In Volokolamsk, 10 participants of a rally against the Yadrovo training ground were detained

In Volokolamsk, after the end of the rally against the Yadrovo landfill, 10 participants of the event were detained. Human rights activist Eduard Rudyk, one of the detainees, reported this to the hotline.

OVD-InfoAt the moment, the detainees are in the Volokolamsk police department. Among them: three members of the “Left Bloc” - Dmitry Knoblakh, Olga Kungurova and another minor girl, “Left Resistance” activist Kirill Kotov and other five people.

Rudyk said that after the rally they were approached by criminal investigation officers who showed their IDs. The reason for the arrest was not explained.

The human rights activist noted that some police officers in the department refuse to identify themselves. The detainees suggest that they could be employees of the FSB and the Center for Countering Extremism.

UPD 16:03 All detainees had their passports or driver's licenses taken away. It also became known that among the ten detainees there were two other members of the “Left Bloc” - Vyacheslav Popov and Viktor Romanov. Rudyk also said that one of the police officers in the department insists that what is happening is not an arrest. Correspondent of the Kommersant newspaper Alexander Chernykh wrote on Facebook that after the rally, a criminal investigation officer approached him: “‘Stop, wait, the officers will come and check you.’ We stood there waiting, they weren’t allowed to take pictures. Two more people arrived in civilian clothes - “Were you on stage?” Did you perform? Absolutely not? Let’s match you now.” We started comparing it with the photo on the phone (we couldn’t see it) and decided that it was not the same.”

UPD 16:42 wrote by someone - Before the rally against the landfill of activists of the “Other Russia”. Later, at the rally itself, a member of the Workers’ Communist Party, who walked with a poster “Shame on the garbage barons!” detained detained - The day before the event, the police stopped the car of Artem Lyubimov, a participant in the movement against the Yadrovo training ground. Law enforcement officers searched the car, then took the activist to the Istrinsky police department and detained him for 48 hours. He is charged with disobeying the lawful demands of the police (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code). Lawyer Denis Kunaev noted that Lyubimov was announced as the main speaker at the rally against the landfill. detained - Residents of Volokolamsk are holding protests against the Yadrovo solid waste landfill. In particular, they blocked trucks going to the landfill.