In Moscow, on Chistye Prudy, the police detained ten people after a performance at Theater.doc - nine employees and a young man who was with them. Theater employee Elena Nosova reported the arrest.
OVD-InfoActors walked after the performance. Actress Maria Chuprinskaya "Mediazone" that near Chistye Prudy they were approached by "five big guys" and a police officer who introduced himself as Goryachkin.
said “They came up to us and began to detain us and shout that we should go with them to the department. We began to ask on what basis, they began to laugh and say that these big guys are five witnesses who will testify against our crimes - alcohol or drugs. They point at director Sasha Kondrashov and say, “Well, you look like a drug user,” the actress said.
According to her, after this the men began to show her and actresses Elena Nosova and Alisa Safina their photographs from Facebook related to the distribution of photos with the convicted director Oleg Sentsov. In addition, the men called the theater employees by name, although they did not show documents.
Tatyana Demidova, an actress at Theatre.doc, was hit in the stomach. She was left at the place of detention, and the rest were taken to the police department in the Basmanny District.
Director Kudryashov's phone, on which he was filming what was happening, was taken away, and the video was erased. In addition to those listed above, the theater administrator Yulia Selina was detained. The theater director and actress Zarema Zautdinova wrote on Facebook that two men remained with Demidova at Chistye Prudy, who called themselves witnesses. “I couldn’t find Tanya on the clean ones, I looked everywhere, the phone was turned off. Comrades in civilian clothes came to the Basmanny police station, joked and said that “your Tanya” was allowed to go home, and they promised to supply drugs to those who were with them,” writes Zautdinova. Open Russia human rights manager Polina Nemirovskaya reported that two detainees have already released. The municipal deputy of the Basmanny district, Ilya Morozov, who is in the department, told her about this. One of them is Maria Chuprinskaya. Six people were released from the department. Theater employee Irina Vekshina said that Tatyana Demidova, who was hit in the stomach, made it home. All detainees were released from the department. Member of the Human Rights Council and the Public Council at the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate Andrei Babushkin joined in resolving this situation, reports legal assistance coordinator Alla Frolova.
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