Participants in a rally in defense of an apple orchard were detained in Moscow

In Moscow, in the area of ​​Kutuzovsky Prospekt, six participants in a protest in defense of an apple orchard located on Slavyansky Boulevard were detained. One of the detainees, Konstantin Fokin, told OVD-Info about this.

Presumably, the detainees are being taken to the police department in the Fili-Davydkovo district.

Four more people were detained on Kutuzovsky Prospect; they are also being taken to the Fili-Davydkovo police station.

15:37 In total, at the moment we know about ten detainees, among them:

Konstantin Fokin Anna Nikolaeva Natalia Sayapina Alina Senyukhina Elena Kurochkina Ekaterina Korolkova Vadim Sokurenko Savely Rozhkov Olga Vereina Tatyana Musienko

A lawyer from OVD-Info, Sergei Telnov, went to the department to see the detainees.

16:02 The police plan to draw up reports against the detainees under the article on participation in an action that interfered with the infrastructure (Part 6.1 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). Also, one of the law enforcement officers stated that each of the detained environmental activists “must have their own lawyer,” although there is no such provision in the law.

16:11 They refuse to let OVD-Info lawyer Sergei Telnov into the department to see the defenders of the apple orchard. The police say that "a lawyer's ID is not an identity document."

17:08 Detainees Nikolaeva and Sayapina are transported to the Kuntsevo police station. Lawyer Telnov is still not allowed into the Fili-Davydkovo police station.

17:54 The lawyer was allowed into the department.

18:02 Lawyer Telnov clarifies that Rozhkov, Sayapina, Kurochkina and Sokurenko left the department without protocols.

Fokina, Sinyukhina and Musienko are left at the Fili-Davydkovo police station for 48 hours.

18:29

Lawyer Telnov continues to be not allowed into the department beyond the duty station; the remaining detainees are kept on the floor above.

19:21 The police said that they received a command from the chief to “put the lawyer in a cage” with the detainees: employees of Center “E” grabbed lawyer Telnov by the arms and tried to detain him. The security forces also took the lawyer’s gloves when they tried to seize the phone.

At the moment, Telnov is on the street next to the police department.

19:50

OVD-Info lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov, as well as lawyer Daniil Berman, went to the OVD to help Telnov.

20:04 We have clarified the information: in fact, Kurochkina, Sayapova and Nikolaeva are still being held at the Kuntsevo police station.

20:31 Lawyer from OVD-Info Elena Makarova advised the detained environmental activists in the Kuntsevo department; the police plan to leave them overnight in the department.

20:45 Ekaterina Korolkova, Olga Vereina, Vadim Sokurenko and Savely Rozhkov were released from the Fili-Davydkovo police department. These are the detainees who initially called the police in connection with the work being done in the garden.

Konstantin Fokin, Alina Sinyukhina, Tatyana Musienko and Sergei Bogatov are staying at the Fili-Davydkovo police station for the night. The latter independently came to the department to write a complaint against the builders, but he was detained during a conflict between the police and lawyer Sergei Telnov.

22:27

Elena Kurochkina, Natalia Sayapina and Anna Nikolaeva also stay at the police department in the Kuntsevo district for the night. At the same time, Kurochkina and Nikolaeva have children under 14 years old. Lawyers were never allowed to see the detainees.

All those taken to the police department in the Kuntsevo district were again transported to the Fili-Davydkovo police station, Elena Kurochkina’s husband told OVD-Info. It is still unknown when their trials will take place. The police at the duty station report that they are still preparing documents and do not know whether the trial will take place today or tomorrow.

On December 28 , Anna Nikolaeva wrote on her Facebook page that the police department did not allow them to talk on the phone and refused to provide them with hygiene products and soap.

wrote Members of the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) arrived at the Fili-Davydkovo police department, reports OVD-Info legal assistance coordinator Alla Frolova.

The department still holds seven detained environmental activists. They complained that they were not fed for a long time, were not given hygiene products, and were not given parcels to the department.

18:50

OVD-Info lawyer Mikhail Biryukov reports that all detainees are charged with participation in an action that interfered with infrastructure (Part 6.1 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). This article provides for administrative arrest as punishment.

19:20 The detainees are again left overnight. Their protocols will be considered by the Dorogomilovsky District Court at 10:00. The interests of the defenders of the apple orchard will be represented by lawyer from OVD-Info Mikhail Biryukov.

20:02 Anna Nikolaeva on her Facebook that she and, possibly, some other detainees are being transported to the Mozhaisky police station. Presumably, this is due to the lack of places in the Fili-Davydkovo branch.

22:37 wrote We corrected the information about the number of detainees after clarification - The reconstruction of the Northern backup of Kutuzovsky Prospekt includes, in addition to the park with three-hundred-year-old oak trees on Ivan Franko Street, an apple orchard on Slavyansky Boulevard and Starorublevskaya Grove, activists. Construction of the route is planned to be completed by the end of 2021. According to the Moscow authorities, this 11-kilometer toll highway from the Molodogvardeyskaya transport interchange to the Moscow City business center, a continuation of the Northern Bypass of the city of Odintsovo, will make entry to the toll backup of the M-1 Belarus highway more comfortable, and will also improve transport accessibility of the areas of Dorogomilovo, Fili-Davydkovo, Mozhaisky, Kuntsevo and Filevsky Park. they say stretch it will