Petersburg: Police detained a picketer with a poster "No war"
Participants in the anti -war action on Nevsky Prospekt, February 27, 2022
Police of St. Petersburg detained a local resident Matvey Pshennikov, who went out on a single picket with the poster "No War". It is reported by "OTD-Info".
Pshennikov was delivered to the police department No. 28, where a protocol was drawn up against him under the article on the discrediting of the Russian army. After that, the detainee was released.
Under the article on "discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation" since March 4, a thousand administrative cases have already appeared, the OVD-Info reports . Human rights activists noted that the scatter of actions for which you can be attracted under this article is very large. For example, several cases were instituted for crosses in memory of those who died in Buch and Mariupol, for "insulting the sign Z" and for the recitation of anti -war poetry. The largest number of cases was instituted for anti -war pickets and posts on social networks.
Criminal cases for anti -war protests have already been opened for 106 people. Most - 39 - excited for "fakes" about the Russian army.