A participant in a picket against the persecution of Crimean Tatars was detained in St. Petersburg

In St. Petersburg, on Malaya Sadovaya, a participant in a one-man picket, Larisa Kucherova, was detained at the Strategy-18 rally against the persecution of Crimean Tatars. This was reported to the hotline by an eyewitness to the detention.

The detainee is currently in a paddy wagon.

20:20 Kucherova was taken to police station No. 78.

20:29 Released from the department without a protocol.

• "Strategy-18" is an indefinite protest action announced in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The name is associated with a memorable date: on May 18, 1944, the deportation of Tatar families began in the Crimea, during which many died before reaching their places of exile.