OVD-Info: The scale of repressions in protests January 31 "exceeded all conceivable and unthinkable limits"

The OVD-Info project called January 31, the second day of all-Russian actions in support of Alexei Navalny, the day of the most mass detentions in the recent history of Russia. Their scale turned out to be such that many detainees could not reach the hotline, the portal team apologized to them.

“Previously, we didn’t even know that we had some standard vocal message in case we cannot answer - this happened extremely rarely. But the scale of repression, and therefore the number of appeals to us, exceeded all conceivable and unthinkable limits today,” the portal team said. At the time of publication of the material, the total number of detainees in Russia on Sunday, according to the OVD-Info, exceeded 5 thousand people.

Human rights activists also published a selection of the most gross violations of the security forces during the detention of protesters, citing the detainees themselves and their relatives.

So, in the police department of the city of Pyt-Yah in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, seced the detainees, grabbed their hair, seized phones and demanded a password, and also threatened to register protesters as extremists. In Ryazan, activist Alexei Borisov was laid between the seats in the car carrier and beaten with batons. He has three ribs broken, a tooth, bruises. The man was taken to the department, then to the regional clinical hospital.

From the police department N86 of St. Petersburg was hospitalized by a detainee with a broken hand. From OP N59, an ambulance took the man unconscious. In the Pyatigorsk police department, a minor was taken to the hospital after an employee hit him. In Vologda, an ambulance came to the detainee, but he is still in the department.

In the Nekrasovka police department in Moscow, an employee of the Investigative Committee is supposed to be supposedly, to whom the detainees are taken by one for interrogation in an unknown case, demanding to fill out the questionnaire. In the same department, the policeman threatened to arrange under this article "Whoever we want", primarily "the most intelligent and swinging rights."

In addition, the detainees with chronic diseases were refused drugs, Alla Frolova told Ekhu Moskva , the coordinator of the OVD-info. She also confirmed the cruel nature of some detentions.

A review of the cruel actions of the security forces is also published by Taiga.info . In Moscow and St. Petersburg, during acceleration and detention of protesters, electric skiers were used. This was told "Paper" , "Fontanka", the Rain and Kommersant TV channel. The latter wrote about "caustic yellow gas" in one of the yards, but who used it - the police or protesters - remained unknown.

Subsequently, the main departments of the St. Petersburg police and the Russian Guard issued statements that light -school grenades and pepper gas were not used to suppress street protest on January 31.

“With the latter, Fontanka is ready to argue. The spraying of the gas towards the participants of the unauthorized action“ Fontanka ”felt on themselves during the dispersal of those who disagree on the hay square. In addition to unpleasant sensations, one of the photographers remained a video. We specially increased the moment that the police officer leads a hand with a closed object with the John's chapter, similar to it, similar A gas spray, a few moments before, the protesters tried to attack the police, therefore, apparently, one of them had to use gas, and the second, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, took out a table of a table of a hollow and showed a determination to apply it, ”writes Fontanka .

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region said that the actions of a police officer with a service weapon were justified and legal. According to them, this was preceded by "aggressive illegal actions by the participants of the inconsistent action, who created an obvious threat to the health of a police officer." A criminal case has been instituted on the fact of applying violence against a police officer.

“I was detained quite brutally - they choked, beat with batons on the arms and feet, beat with a shocker. If it weren’t for the helmet, I would have wiped my paving stones,” said the photographer Georgy Markov. One of the uses of Shocar in Moscow got on the video of the “present tense” .

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- Egor Maksimov (@egor_mq) January 31, 2021

Asthe Mediazona found out, the detainee for the video is the name of Soso Glonti and he leads a blog about sports on Instagram. He said that he was delivered to the South Medvedkovo Ministry of Internal Affairs, where he wrote a statement in which he asks "to" take measures against the employees of the special regiment ", who hit him" about 15 times "when detained in the Sokolniki metro area. According to him, he was beaten when transferring from one car Zak to another.

Activist Alexander Chebotar was broken to the blood of a club. In Avtosak, the employees bandaged his head and released him, he went to the emergency room to record the damage, but he was again detained on the way. He intends to contact the Investigative Committee.

The correspondent "Business-FM" Aigul Abdullina suffered from batons. The journalist of the Papers said that a noise grenade exploded next to him. In St. Petersburg, people were beaten on the head, dragged along the snow, and one of the participants in the action tried to detain and put in a car carrier unconscious, in the end they had to call an ambulance.

On Sennaya Square in St. Petersburg, one of the police officers took out a service gun and directed it to the crowd . It was reported that the security forces also used gas against protesting participants after they tried to free the detainee. Police representatives deny this.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova told RIA Novosti about the need to verify the reliability of reports that electric skiers were used on an inconsistent campaign in St. Petersburg. "Each fact requires a thorough verification of this situation. Whether it was generally fixed. It is necessary to hear both sides and then make some appropriate decisions," she said. The agency does not specify whether the Moskalkova question was asked about shockers in Moscow.

One of the detainees for promotions in Vladivostok also spoke about the use of electric shockers. In the other, after the detention, they shot from traumatic weapons. “I did not use any resistance or violence. A person who did not introduce himself was shot at me without a form. I shouted to him, asked who he was, an employee or not. I thought it was a Cossack in general, and he would kill me,” he said “OVD -info” .

In Kostroma, torture was applied to the detainee: they pinched his nose so that he did not breathe, and closed his mouth. In Kazan, police officially put the detainees in the snow. They were threatened, residents were simply insulted. At least 93 journalists in 31 city were detained.

In Moscow, they did not massively allow lawyers to the police departments. In other cities, the security forces tried to select phones, collect fingerprints and carry out other procedures not provided for by law during administrative detention. In the police department in the Moscow District, Chertanovo "Central" from the detainees wanted to pick up the keys to the apartments and passports.