A seventh-grader was detained in Cheboksary with a poster about a repressed relative

Law enforcement officers detained a seventh grade student, Mikhail Prokhorov, who went to the action "Immortal Gulag" in Cheboksary with a poster "Gefs Karp Fedorovich lived in Chuvashia, the conductor of a freight train. Shot: May 29, 1938,” reported . Idel.Realii

Prokhorov said that at first a man in civilian clothes approached him and quickly showed him a police officer's ID, while he was talking on the phone. After that, seven more police officers approached the teenager, who asked to follow them to the police station.

“Already at the police station, they took away my phone and tried to take a statement, calling me a “Navalenko” who goes to rallies for 500 rubles. I said that I would not say anything and asked me to call my mother, ”said Prokhorova.

According to Idel.Realii, the police did not see a violation of the law in the actions of the seventh grader, but they detained him "because of an incomprehensible poster." The police did not draw up a report on the detainee, and the phone was returned after the mother's arrival.

Recall that October 30 is considered the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repressions in Russia. Various events and mourning actions are held on this day. On October 29, an action dedicated to this date was also held in Moscow. It is called "The Return of Names" and has been held annually since 2007 at the Solovetsky Stone on the Lubyanka. During it, all comers read out the names of people who suffered from repression in Soviet times.