For fair elections and against political repression. Results of the action on August 10

Solidarity actions with similar demands were held in more than 40 cities of Russia. Several thousand people across the country took part in them. People came out to rallies and single pickets. In St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don and Bryansk, police detained participants in these actions.

In Moscow, after the rally on Sakharov Avenue, some of the protesters headed towards Chistye Prudy and Kitay-Gorod . There the police began to detain them.

Information about the detainees:

Detained: 352 people
Moscow — 256
St. Petersburg - 79
Rostov-on-Don - 13
Bryansk - 2
Syktyvkar - 2

Beaten by police officers: 6

Minors: 28

Detained journalists: 3

What the detainees are charged with: violation of the rules of participation in the rally (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

They face a fine of up to 20 thousand rubles or up to 40 hours of compulsory work.

Police and National Guard:

• It is known that a person with the second group of disabilities was detained. The police were warned about his limitations during the arrest, but they did not pay attention to it. They also dropped the man twice on the way to the paddy wagon.

• Law enforcement officers harshly detained the protesters. In Moscow they surrounded the protesters.

Violations in police departments:

• In St. Petersburg, at police department No. 19, was beaten Svetlana Utkina, a member of the “Spring” movement, . An ambulance was called for her. There is also information about one more victim from police officers in this police department.
• In Moscow, lawyers were not allowed to see detainees at the Khamovniki, Academichesky, Tagansky, and Ochakovo-Matveevskoye police departments .
• In St. Petersburg, at police department No. 19, detainees were not allowed to drink water or use the toilet.
• At police department No. 74, they tried to take away the passports of the detainees by force.

• The Investigative Committee arrived at the Kotlovka police station, their phones were taken away from the detainees, they were not given water and were not allowed to go to the toilet.

• At the Khoroshevo-Mnevniki OVD, the police do not allow the lawyer from OVD-Info Vasily Kushnir to enter, do not give transfers, threaten the detainees with criminal charges, expulsion from the university, forcibly take fingerprints, and also take photographs of the detainees.

• At the Akademicheskiy police station, the detainees are summoned for questioning by plainclothes officers, and the minor was not released, although his mother came to see him.

• Lawyers were not allowed into the Tagansky police station, phones and passports were taken away, and force was used against one of the detainees.

• At the Ochakovo police station, fingerprints are forcibly taken.

• A detainee with a dislocated collarbone was taken away from the Presnensky police station in an ambulance.

• At the Tverskoy police station they confiscate passports and copies of passports.

What else do you need to know:

• In Moscow, after an agreed rally for fair elections on Sakharov Avenue, police detained Alexei Polikhovich, who spoke at the rally. this to OVD-Info His wife Tatyana reported . According to her, unknown people in civilian clothes detained Polikhovich on the evening of August 10 on his way home. The young man was taken to the police department in the Krasnoselsky district, where a report was drawn up against him under the article of petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code).
• At about seven o'clock in the evening on the eve of the action, it became known that TV director Dmitry Vasilyev had been detained. According to the lawyer OVD-Info , he may become the thirteenth person involved in the criminal case of “mass riots”. Until half past five in the morning he was interrogated by the Investigative Committee in this case. After interrogation, Vasiliev was left in a temporary detention center. He has diabetes, but he was forbidden to take insulin and a glucometer into his cell. At two o'clock in the afternoon on August 10, Vasilyev was hospitalized due to high blood sugar levels. A court hearing is scheduled for August 11, which will choose a preventive measure for him. The investigator tried to put pressure on Vasiliev’s relatives so that the suspect would refuse the lawyer provided by OVD-Info . Later it became known that Vasiliev was in intensive care . Doctors suspect that the man has cerebral edema.