
On the morning of July 9, law enforcement officers began a search in the apartments of Open Russia and MBH Media employees, as well as the municipal deputy Julia Galyamina. In total, five searches are taking place in Moscow and Tomsk. It is reported by "MBH Media".
The coordinators of Open Russia Tatyana Usmanova and Olga Gorelik spoke about searches. At 06:19, the municipal deputy Galyamin also announced the arrival of the security forces. At about 06:30 in the morning, the chief editor of MBH Media Sergey Prostakov reported about the searches. Later it became known that the lawyer of the Human Rights Cards Alexei Pryanishnikov also began a search, he lives in Tomsk.
A formal reason for searches at Usmanova, Gorelik and Prostakova is the case of Yukos in 2003, says Konstantin Fomin, spokeswoman for Open Russia. At the same time, in his opinion, the real reason may be an application for a rally on July 15 in Moscow against amendments to the Constitution. The same rally should be held in St. Petersburg.
According to MBH Media, lawyers are not allowed to Prostakov and Galyamina.
The lawyer is trying to get into the apartment of the chief editor of MBH Media Sergey Prostakov, where the search is now being held. Video: @mbkhmedia pic.twitter.com/mtswedby2w
- MBH Media (@mbkhmedia) July 9, 2020
There is no commentary on official representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the situation.
Previously, the former Kommersant correspondent Ivan Safronov was accused of Gosizman - this was the fourth case against journalists in a week. Prior to this , the publisher of the Mediazons Pyotr Verzilov brought a criminal passport from the Canadian passport, the Pskov journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva was found guilty of justifying terrorism. The correspondent of the Mediazones David Frenkel went to the hospital - during the vote for amendments in one of the sites, a policeman broke his hand .
Update from 10:30. The security forces detained the Executive Director of the Postcard Andrei Pivovarov and the coordinator Maria Kuznetsova. The Open Russia office also began a search.
Update from 12:30. The security forces came to the editorial office of MBH Media. They brought Sergey Prostakov there. Olga Gorelik is taken to the office of Open Russia. Tatyana Usmanova seized equipment and paper, she was taken to search at registration