Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was detained in St. Petersburg

Updated . Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and other members of Pussy Riot were released from the police without a protocol being drawn up, reports . Apology of Protest

Petersburg police have detained a member of the Pussy Riot group Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, said on Twitter. another member of the group Pyotr Verzilov

Verzilov clarified to Mediazona that, in addition to Tolokonnikova, 12 more people were detained during a photo session in an art studio in Akademichesky Lane. Tolokonnikova confirmed this information.

The detainees are being taken to the 16th police station on Vasilyevsky Island, Verzilov specified. According to him , the police cited a carbon monoxide leak as the reason for the detention.

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region does not comment on this.

On February 9, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova said that the police disrupted the shooting of the Pussy Riot video, which took place at the Lenfilm studio. At the same time, the film studio said that the band members themselves dressed as policemen.