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Three participants in a picket against the persecution of Crimean Tatars were detained in Moscow
In Moscow, two participants in a picket against the persecution of the Crimean Tatars, brothers Nikolai and Alexander Rekubratsky, were detained. This was reported to OVD-Info by one of the detainees.
Activists stood in a picket near the Presidential Administration with a banner "No deportation of Crimean Tatars to Russian prisons." “It was decided to take you to the department,” the police explained the reasons for the detention.
The Rekubratskys were taken to the Kitai-Gorod police department.
16:50 Activist Anna Krechetova, who was picketing, was also detained near the Presidential Administration. She herself informed OVD-Info about this.
17:20 Anna Krechetova was taken to the Kitai-Gorod OP. A lawyer from OVD-Info, Mikhail Biryukov, is also nominated there.
18:45 The Rekubratsky brothers were released with a protocol on participation in an unapproved action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Anna Krechetova is charged with a repeated violation of the “rally” article (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Mikhail Biryukov, a lawyer from OVD-Info, reports this.
Georgy Kudinov, who was detained on Red Square, also turned up at the police department. He was picketing with a poster “Vote against United Russia! Smart Voting.
7 September 16:30 Anna Kretchetova was left overnight at the police station before the hearing to be held in the Tverskoy District Court. Georgy Kudinov was released from the police department on September 6 with a protocol on participation in an unapproved rally. This was reported to OVD-Info by lawyer Mikhail Biryukov.
On October 21, the Tverskoy District Court fined Nikolai and Alexander Rekubratsky in the amount of 10 thousand rubles under the article on participation in an uncoordinated action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported to OVD-Info by Konstantin Kotov.
At the same time, the picket line was considered a mass event.
The title of the news has been changed due to information about the new detainee.
- After the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russian security forces began to put pressure on Crimean Tatar activists. The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people was declared an extremist organization and banned. Criminal cases are initiated against Crimean Tatars, mainly for membership in Hizb ut-Tahrir, which has been recognized as a terrorist organization. Crimean Tatars are regularly searched and interrogated.