The Ministry of Internal Affairs began an internal investigation after the story of a volunteer from the Sobol headquarters about a beating at the Moscow police department

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow began an internal investigation after the story of 21-year-old volunteer of the Lyubov Sobol headquarters, Alena Kitayeva, about the beating at the Donskoy police station. This is stated in the request received by Dozhd from.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs began an investigation because of story about Kitaeva, asked the publication for the full version of the interview and called in the journalists who prepared it for questioning. Dozhd’s

Kitaeva was detained at a protest rally on the evening of February 2 after the punishment of politician Alexei Navalny was commuted. The girl said that at the police department they put a bag over her head, beat her and demanded her phone password, threatening her with a stun gun.

about the beating at the police station in the Donskoy district to Mediazona spoke Other detainees that day also . Kitaeva’s 19-year-old sister Alexandra recalled that for fingerprinting the police “squeezed [her] fists, threatened that they would break her fingers and hands,” and they said about her sister that “they killed her” and that she “dances a striptease for them.”

The day after her arrest at the February 2 rally, Kitaeva was arrested for 12 days. Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that “a lot of such reports later turn out to be untrue” and that “if this was really the case, then she (Kitaeva - MZ) should already file a lawsuit.”