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Police detained Sota journalist Nika Samusic for almost 11 hours for covering Pavel Krisevich's rally on Red Square. She became a suspect in a hooliganism case
The journalist of the Sota.Vision telegram channel, Nika Samusik, is being held by the police for almost 11 hours after she covered the action of the artist Pavel Krisevich with an imitation of suicide on Red Square. This is reported by the editors of Sota.
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22:58 Almost 11 hours later, journalist Samusik was detained for interrogation as a suspect in a case of hooliganism by a group of persons (part 2 of article 213 of the Criminal Code), reports OVD-info
Samusik filmed Krisevich's action on Friday morning. During the shooting, the security forces took away her SD card with materials and detained her without explanation, despite the presence of a press card.
She was taken to the Kitai-Gorod police station, and then to the police department for the Central Administrative District. There, the police seized her personal belongings. At the same time, Samusik was not assigned any status.
The lawyer was not allowed to see the journalist, they refused to hand over food. The security forces also took her for a medical examination without her consent, Sota writes.
“We demand to stop illegal investigative actions against our colleague and immediately release her,” the journalists said in a statement.
against Krysevich himself A criminal case on hooliganism was initiated (Article 213 of the Criminal Code). In the course of an action against political repressions, he fired two noise cartridges into the air from a dampened analogue of a Makarov pistol on Red Square and simulated a shot at himself. According to Sota, Krisevich is now in the hospital. However, he was not injured by the shot.
Before the action on Red Square, the artist prepared a manifesto in which he called the shot "the only solution to get rid of the fear of reprisals."
Krisevich is known for actions against authoritarian regimes: he held a performance in support of protesters in Belarus, “crucified” himself on a cross near the FSB building in Moscow as a sign of support for political prisoners, and also protested near Russian courts. Due to political activity, Krisevich was expelled from PFUR.