“Freedom for Navalny”! Results of the all-Russian protest on January 23

On January 23, protests were held in at least 125 Russian cities in support of the arrested politician Alexei Navalny, whom the court is asking to replace his suspended sentence in the Yves-Rocher case with a real one. In many cities, the actions ended in forceful dispersal, mass detentions and criminal cases against the protesters. OVD-Info tells the main thing about today.

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On the eve of the action, the police detained 50 coordinators of Navalny's headquarters, FBK employees and supporters of the politician in different regions of the country. throughout Russia . In addition, pressure was put on political activists, journalists and human rights activists

Information about detainees

Detained: 4,002 people (as of January 28) in 125 cities of Russia - this is a record for nine years of OVD-Info's work. Here is a list of detainees by region . OVD-Info and Meduza also prepared a map with information on the number of detainees in each region.

Beaten by police: At least 70 people from 23 cities told OVD-Info that they were beaten by police. They beat their heads on the asphalt, beat them with truncheons on their heads and other parts of their bodies, jumped on the leg of one person, pulled out an earring-tunnel from the ear of another.

Minors: at least 195 of the detainees, some of them were beaten;

Detained journalists: 49 people in 18 cities, some of them were beaten during detention.

What are the detainees charged with: violation of the rules for participation in the action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses); interference with urban infrastructure (part 6.1 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses); repeated violation of the rules for participation in the action (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

What threatens them: under various parts of the administrative articles, detainees face fines from 10 to 300 thousand rubles and arrest from 15 to 30 days.

How protests were dispersed in different regions

Moscow

Novosibirsk

Ekaterinburg

Krasnoyarsk

Violence and threats to protesters by security forces

that she was expecting a baby ; - A pregnant girl was beaten and detained near Matrosskaya Tishina, the girl told the Dozhd correspondent

— In Novosibirsk, riot police severely beat a protester. He needed urgent medical attention;

— In the Khabarovsk police department (OP), 6 detained protesters were beaten with sticks . They were also placed along the wall with their arms outstretched;

- In the Khabarovsk PS, 5 detainees were also put against the wall, and one of them was beaten ;

- In Vladivostok, an riot policeman stepped on a detainee in a paddy wagon;

- In Vladivostok, the detainee was threatened with sexual violence;

— In Novosibirsk, a protester was beaten during detention ;

- In St. Petersburg, an riot policeman kicked a woman in the stomach so that she flew off and fell on the asphalt. This happened when the woman asked why the young man was detained, who was being led by the security forces. The woman was taken away in an ambulance, the doctors ascertained a moderate concussion and a closed craniocerebral injury;

- It was reported about Sergei Guryev, who was lying in a paddy wagon and was hardly conscious. The OMON officers refused to call an ambulance for him. The paddy wagon was going to the police station in the Moscow district of Maryino;

— In Moscow, student Artem Berlin was beaten up by security forces near the entrance to the Tsvetnoy Bulvar metro station. During the arrest, the riot police threw him to the ground and hit him with a truncheon. Berlin was taken to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Rostokino district. He complained of pain in his arm, an ambulance was called to the department;

- In Moscow, in the Yuzhnoportovy police department, an underage girl was hit in the solar plexus during the arrest.

OMON beat journalists

— Novaya Gazeta correspondent Liza Kirpanova was thrown to the ground and hit on the head with a truncheon while working on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow. She stood in the center of the crowd and wore a brightly colored press vest;

on the head with a stun gun and a baton on Pushkinskaya Square - Avtozak LIVE correspondent Nikita Stupin was hit . He had a press card and an editorial assignment with him;

— The Insider journalist Vera Ryabitskaya was beaten during her arrest in St. Petersburg. When detained at Vosstaniya Square, protesters were beaten with batons and thrown to the ground;

- In St. Petersburg , they hit with a baton and detained the correspondent of the local branch of Echo of Moscow, Arseny Vesnin, despite accreditation and identification marks "press" .

## Violations of rights in paddy wagons and police departments

- The police department for the Levoberezhny district in Moscow does not accept transmissions. Inside, they tried to pass dry ice, because one of the detainees had broken fingers. The policemen said they had already called the medics;

in a paddy wagon for more than three hours - In Moscow, near the police department for the Pechatniki district, the detainees have been kept ;

- In Moscow, from the Sviblovo police department, was hospitalized Viktor Tyaglik, who was detained at the action, at the Sklifosovsky Research Institute. The police hit him twice on the head with a baton during the arrest, from the second blow he fell face down on the ground;

to see the detainees at the Strogino police department in Moscow ; is not allowed - Tatyana Okushko, a lawyer from OVD-Info,

— In Velikiye Luki, Pskov region, activist Yevgeny Ivanov is left for the night before the trial in the department, despite the fact that an administrative protocol was drawn up against him under a rally article that does not provide for arrest as a punishment (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses);

- In Moscow, in the Teply Stan police department, the detainees were kept in a paddy wagon for more than three hours. They were then forcibly fingerprinted and photographed ;

- In Yaroslavl, detainees in the department for the Kirovsky district are not allowed to go to the toilet and are not allowed to drink water;

- in Moscow, detainees are kept in a paddy wagon near the Preobrazhenskoye police station for two hours and are not taken to the department;

- In Moscow, are not allowed into the Yuzhnoye Medvedkovo police department and the department for the Yuzhnoye Tushino district; lawyers from OVD-Info

- In Stavropol, at least 40 detainees are kept in a paddy wagon near the police department for two and a half hours. It's 0 degrees outside;

- In Samara, in the 1st (“Kirov”) police department, no protocols are drawn up for detainees; they threaten to worsen the conditions of detention and that they will keep "as long as they want." Three minors are interrogated without their parents;

into the department to see the protesters - In Syktyvkar, a lawyer is not allowed . The police officer on duty states that there are no detainees in the department;

- In Moscow, at the Nekrasovka police station, they keep people in the cold in a paddy wagon and do not bring them to the department. The policeman demanded that they hand over their passports, and when they refused, he turned off the engine of the car with the words “it means you will freeze.” According to the detainees, four people from the paddy wagon were beaten. In the evening in Moscow about 0 degrees;

- In Ufa, detainees are forced to give fingerprints with threats . Ruslan Valiev, editor-in-chief of the Ufa-based Ekho Moskvy, was threatened with “putting [him] in jail” for refusing to take prints. Other detainees are threatened with detention. Two juveniles were taken to a conversation in a room different from the rest of the detainees;

- In Rostov-on-Don, in the Investigation Department, are being interrogated minors in a criminal case on incitement to mass riots, which was initiated against a young man during the day. He allegedly called for riots from his personal page on the VKontakte social network. He had previously been searched;

- in some Moscow police departments, the “Fortress” plan is introduced, employees of the investigative committee come there.

Criminal cases after the protest

- Criminal cases on charges of blocking roads and sidewalks (part 1 of article 267.1 of the Criminal Code) were initiated in three cities. In Moscow - for blocking Pushkinskaya Square, in St. Petersburg - for blocking Nevsky Prospekt, and in Vladivostok - for blocking central streets. The maximum penalty for this charge is two years in prison;

- In Moscow, in the wake of the protest action, four criminal cases were opened on the use of violence against government officials (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code). The victims in these criminal cases are two employees of the National Guard; a police officer who, according to investigators, was gassed in the face. The last case was allegedly initiated in connection with a car hitting a policeman. The driver of the car that transported Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina and municipal deputy Lyusya Stein is suspected of this.

A criminal case was also initiated on hooliganism (Article 213 of the Criminal Code) and on intentional damage to property (Article 167 of the Criminal Code). Human rights activist Pavel Chikov suggests that this is one criminal case under two articles, initiated in connection with the damage to the special service car near the circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard.

in Moscow was opened On January 25 , another criminal case - on violation of sanitary rules, which led to a mass infection with coronavirus (Article 236 of the Criminal Code). The plot of the criminal case is still unknown, but the city authorities reported that 19 people with confirmed COVID-19 took part in the action.

- In St. Petersburg, a criminal case was opened for an attack on two traffic police officers during a rally (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code). Detained 36-year-old IT-company employee Nikolai Devyaty, who confessed to the use of violence. The maximum penalty is five years in prison;

- In Vladivostok, two criminal cases were opened on the use of violence against police officers (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code). The maximum penalty is five years in prison:

• A 28-year-old man was detained in the first case. According to investigators, he “grabbed his neck with his hand and tried to knock down an employee of the Primorsky Territory Department of the Russian Guard and struck him at least two blows with his hands in the head and body area”;
• The second suspect was also detained - the investigation believes that he inflicted a total of at least five blows to the head and body of two patrol officers, after which he disappeared;

- In Vladimir, a case of violence was opened against a policeman (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code). A 38-year-old man was detained, he is accused of spraying a gas canister towards a security official.

- In Krasnodar, a criminal case was opened under the article on hooliganism motivated by hatred (clause 1, part 1, article 213). The suspect in this case is Vladimir Yegorov. According to investigators, during the action on January 23, he climbed a monument to the Kuban Cossacks in the form of a Cossack on horseback, after which he “put his shorts on the horse’s hoof, then took off his pants, exposing his buttocks, turned first towards the administrative building, slapping himself on them than grossly violated public order." The maximum penalty is five years in prison.

against the activist of AgitRossiya Pavel Ivankin was opened - In St. Petersburg , a criminal case for insulting a representative of the authorities (Article 319 of the Criminal Code). After interrogation, he was released from the Investigative Committee without a preventive measure. According to the article imputed to Ivankin, there is no real deprivation of liberty, the punishment is a fine, compulsory or corrective labor;

- In several regions of Russia, criminal cases were initiated on calls for mass riots (part 3 of article 212 of the Criminal Code) at protests on January 23: in Tatarstan , in Novosibirsk , in Rostov-on-Don . The maximum penalty for this charge is two years in prison;

- On the eve of the action, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under the article on “involving minors in illegal activities” (paragraphs “a”, “c” of part 2 of article 151.2 of the Criminal Code) because of posts with announcements of actions in support of Navalny. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow is conducting a pre-investigation check in this case against the heads of Navalny's regional headquarters.

On the day of the protest, State Duma deputy Yevgeny Marchenko suggested toughening the punishment under this article to five years in prison, and up to ten years for inciting minors to organize mass riots. The Supreme Court and the Investigative Committee approved the toughening of criminal penalties.

What else is important to know about today

at the entrance to Moscow - At about ten in the morning, a column of armored vehicles was noticed , and was closed in the capital itself; Red Square

- In different regions of the country, there were failures in the work of all Russian mobile operators, and also fell ; the Twitter social network

- In Moscow, the police broke into an apartment near Pushkin Square, from where Dozhd journalists were broadcasting live. The police cut off the electricity and took away the passport from correspondent Alexei Korostelev, and then took him to the police department for identification;

- In Khabarovsk, protocols are drawn up on detainees with the wording that they protested against the authorities and in support of "political prisoners Furgal S.I. and Navalny A.A."