Defender of the Trinity Forest detained in Moscow

In Moscow, the police detained the defender of the Trinity Forest Ekaterina Nilova. This was reported to OVD-Info by her friend Svetlana Efimova-Sosnovskaya.

Nilova was detained at work and taken to the police department in the Krylatskoye district to draw up a protocol. According to Sosnovskaya, the policemen came to both her and Nilova the day before at the place of registration and questioned them about the people's gathering on February 12 in the Trinity Forest.

18:30 Oksana Borodina, a lawyer from OVD-Info, came to help the detainee.

22:17 Yekaterina Nilova was released from the police department. Two protocols were drawn up against her under the article on violation of the rules for participation in a public event. One protocol in connection with the action in the Trinity Forest on February 12, and the other for the action on February 5.

In the police department, Nilov was defended by Oksana Borodina, a lawyer from OVD-Info.

• In the Trinity Forest (New Moscow), eco-activists and caring local residents are regularly on duty, who oppose the cutting down of some trees to build a school. On February 12, the police detained more than 10 people who were on duty in the forest. The court then imposed fines and arrests on them, defense with the support of OVD-Info was carried out by lawyer Ekaterina Morozova and lawyers Olga Bukhina and Maria Krasova.
• On February 17 , 18 and 21 , the police detained the participants of the gathering on February 12 in different districts of Moscow and drew up reports on them.