A participant in a rally against the war with Ukraine left Russia due to pressure from security forces

Anastasia Ageeva, a participant in the anti-war rally on April 2, left Russia due to pressure from the security forces. This is what SOTA is about.

On April 29, police officers reported to Ageeva along with her friends Elena Pivkina and Natalya Tikhonova on Red Square. The girls did not hold any actions that day. Ageeva suggested that they were detained because of their participation in the anti-war rally on April 2.

detained At the department, the police charged the girls with petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code), although, according to them, they did not resist the police during the arrest. On May 3, the court sentenced Ageeva and Pivkina to 15 days of arrest, and Tikhonova was fined two and a half thousand rubles.

appointed “On May 5, I left the special detention center for an appeal. There was another judge there. She did watch the video that we were able to shoot, and then left for three hours. I had already begun to hope that she would cancel the decision, but this did not happen. She did not comment on the video, although it was clear that she was surprised, including by the actions of the employees,” Ageeva SOTA.

told In addition, after being detained at a rally in support of Ukraine on April 2, in the department, operatives of Center “E” offered the girls “cooperation” and also threatened them. “The employees joked that they were taking me to the department “to improve the gene pool of the nation.” I replied that only a dead person could rape me,” said Natalya Tikhonova.

Ageeva emigrated to the USA.

• After the start of the war in Ukraine, the Russian authorities began to react sharply to protest sentiments: they not only ordered to call the invasion a “special operation”, but also made lightning-fast amendments on imprisonment for up to 15 years for spreading “fakes” about the Russian army. Dissenters are persecuted not only under the new article of the criminal code: in various cases, security forces charge hooliganism, vandalism, violence against authorities and other violations. accepted