In Moscow, special forces came to the home of three activists. They spoke about the use of torture against them

In Moscow, special forces break down the door to an apartment where three activists are located: Alexander Menyukov, Alexandra Popova and Artem Kamardin. This was reported to OVD-Info by their acquaintances.

Communication with the activists was lost. Probably, they came to them with a search. Police have been on duty near their house since the evening.

Kamardin participated in the Mayakovsky Readings, which took place the day before in Moscow on Triumphal Square. Earlier, five participants of the poetic event were detained under the rally article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.

17:55 Lawyer Leonid Solovyov, who came to defend the activists, was not allowed into the apartment under the pretext that an operational-search event is being carried out there - an inspection of the premises. about this . The lawyer told the publication Novaya Gazeta.Europe

Inspection of the premises ended at about 17 hours. Popova and Kamardin were taken out of the apartment in handcuffs, Menyukov without handcuffs. Three activists were taken to the Investigation Department for the Tverskoy District. It is not yet known how they are connected with the criminal case and under what article the case was initiated.

21:30 Novaya Gazeta. Europe”, citing its source , reports that Artem Kamardin was beaten and raped after being detained. According to the publication, the security forces "beat Kamardin very badly and put a dumbbell in his anus."

Then Kamardin was forced to apologize on camera because of the phrase “Glory to Kievan Rus, Novorossiya — suck,” which he said at the Mayakovsky Readings. on the 112 police telegram channel . appeared A video of the three detainees, including Kamardin, who has an abrasion visible on his face,

The beating of Kamardin was also reported to the OVD-Info hotline.

21:55 Activist Alexandra Popova, who was among the detainees, was also released from the police department in the Tverskoy district. After leaving the department, she told her friends that during the search she was threatened with gang rape, her hair was pulled out and her face was covered with superglue stickers.

22:22 Popova told OVD-Info about how violence was used against her. “I have a lot of superglue on me, because the security forces stuck stickers to my face with superglue, tried to stick my mouth shut, pulled out my hair, kicked me, threatened to rape me with five of them, constantly showed me a video with Artyom, and I heard perfectly everything that was happening,” says young woman. “They constantly pulled my hair, they pawed me and they threatened me very actively that they would rape me.”

It is known that a certain criminal case has been initiated, in which Popova is a witness. came out of the Tver department An underage girl, who was detained yesterday at the Mayakovsky Readings, . She is also a witness in this case.

27 September 00:15 According to preliminary data, Artem Kamardin, Alexander Menyukov, Nikolai Daineko, who was detained directly at the Mayakovsky Readings and then again in court, and Yegor Shtovba, who is present on the video, are still in the Investigative Department for the Tverskoy District of Moscow from the telegram channel "112".

01:37 Artem Kamardin became a suspect under the article on inciting hatred or enmity with the threat of violence (paragraph “a” of part 2 of article 282 of the Criminal Code). about it Writes "Novaya Gazeta. Europe” with reference to lawyer Leonid Solovyov. The activist is detained for 48 hours.

An ambulance arrived at the Investigation Department for the Tverskoy District. The lawyer said that medical assistance was needed in connection with the concussion that Kamardin received during the beatings. He is going to be hospitalized.

02:20 Nikolai Daineko, another participant in the Mayakovsky Readings, is detained for 48 hours under the same article. He was also charged with inciting hatred or enmity with the threat of violence. Leysan Mannapova, a lawyer from OVD-Info, reports this.

Daineko was detained on the eve of the search during the readings, after which a protocol was drawn up against him on participation in an unapproved action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The Shcherbinsky District Court of Moscow fined him 20 thousand rubles, and after the meeting he was immediately detained and taken to the UK.

03:02 Alexander Menyukov was released from the UK after interrogation. He is involved in the case of inciting hatred or enmity with the threat of violence (paragraph “a” of Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) as a witness. Eyewitnesses report this to OVD-Info.

03:18 Activist Yegor Shtovba became a suspect in the case of inciting hatred or enmity with the threat of violence (paragraph “a” of part 2 of article 282 of the Criminal Code).

03:03 Yegor Shtovba was sent to a temporary detention center for 48 hours before a preventive measure is chosen.

08:20 Alexandra Popova, who was beaten by the security forces, was diagnosed with a concussion, bruising of the soft tissues of the head, thighs and legs, exfoliation of the skin of the left hand and a closed craniocerebral injury.

08:57 Doctors found multiple bruises in Alexander Menyukov's right ear, left wrist joint and back.

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