Four participants of the action against torture were detained in St. Petersburg

In St. Petersburg, four people, including three minors, were detained at the Vesna Movement Movement Movement against Political Personal, the OVD-Info reports .

The performance was held on Krestovsky Island. The girl, doused with red paint, fell on the pedestal of the sculpture of the talisman of the World Cup in Russia - the Wolf Zabivaki.

"We do not oppose the championship as such and its ordinary participants. But we want to remind you that the authorities use a football holiday as an occasion to restrict the rights and freedoms of citizens. During the championship, it was limited to the already suppressed freedom of expression of their opinion: even single pickets were prohibited in many cities. Active and indifferent citizens are detained and isolated from society under false pretexts. In prison, innocent are hungry. Such as Oleg Sentsov.

The detainees were delivered to the police department No. 71. There, one minor activist was called an ambulance, they have a medical care (what happened to her is not specified).

According to the ATS-Info, the police promised the detainees to draw up protocols on them under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the procedure for holding public actions). Meanwhile, Fontanka reports that activists are charged with Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code (petty hooliganism).