In the Moscow region, several dozen Muslims were detained and kept in police custody for five hours

On October 12, in Mytishchi, people in military uniforms and masks detained several dozen Muslims who had left a mosque in a private sector on the sixth Lestnoy Lane. about this with reference to an eyewitness of the incident, Magomed Khabibibirov, as well as journalists from the Russian FM Project, Yuri Senchev and Evgeny Proshin. writes Mediazona

Khabibibirov told the publication that after leaving the mosque, Muslims saw two buses and 30-40 masked people. According to him, the security forces refused to answer questions about the reasons for the detention. Later, a man “in civilian uniform” said: “Someone called us and complained that there was a mass gathering of people. And we answered the call."

The interlocutor of Mediazona notes that Muslims gather in this mosque every Friday, and all the neighbors are aware of this. The man is sure that none of them wrote a complaint.

Then, according to the newspaper, the security forces promised to release the detainees after checking the documents, but they did nothing for two or three hours. After that, they said that the Muslims went by bus to the department. Khabibibirov emphasizes that they did not resist this demand and voluntarily entered the buses.

“And they didn’t draw up any protocol, nothing. Stupidly, we sat for five hours, and at the end they let us go. They didn’t tell us anything at all, soldiers were standing in front and that’s all, no one approached us. We called the investigators, and called the prosecutor's office, not a single person decided to help us, did not come. And we, like sacks of potatoes, were loaded onto buses and unloaded from the bus, ”Khabibibirov’s comment was quoted by Mediazona.