"Take off your clothes, scum"

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" Let's get out and let go "

The Mayakovsky Readings, which caused the search, were held at the monument to the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky in Moscow on September 25. For many years, these poetry evenings have been held every last Sunday of the month from April to October. This time the activists declared them “anti-mobilization”. Kamardin took part in them and read a poem in which there was such a line: “Glory to Kievan Rus. Novorossiya, suck.

The next day, the police came to Kamardin's apartment in the center of Moscow, where his girlfriend Alexandra Popova and their friend Alexander Menyukov live with him. Popova told Kholod that the police did not let the lawyer into the apartment, citing the fact that a “premise inspection” was being carried out there. First of all, the security forces smashed Kamardin's phone. “They started smashing everything in the apartment, this cannot be called a search. They took nothing but money. I saw them take $600 from the room. I doubt they made any inventory,” said Popova.

For several hours, the security forces beat Artyom Kamardin in the same place, in the apartment. Popova at that time was lying face down on the floor in the next room and heard the sounds of blows, as well as the cries of Kamardin. And then the police saw the dumbbell bar. "Take off your clothes, you bastard. I’ll shoot you in the legs now,” the policeman shouted, according to Popova. Kamardin refused.

“They made him insert a dumbbell bar into his anus. He refused. They beat him, beat him, beat him, beat him ... In the end, they did what they wanted. They still raped him with this vulture. They filmed it all on their personal phones, laughed, ”says Popova. The security forces showed her photos and videos of the rape. In addition, Popova was periodically kicked, glued stickers on her face with superglue, and then they themselves tore them off. “They shouted: “Let's glue your lips together.” Tried to put glue on the lips. Then they tried to talk to me, but in reality they grabbed my hair and mocked me,” continues Popova.

The torture and abuse did not end there. “They sat me down and five of them started walking around me. Many times they threatened that the five of them would rape me. From time to time they took things and banged them on my face. I felt bad. I almost did not react to them at the end, ”recalls Popova. - As a result, the police said: “We will fuck you now and let you go. You will be a witness."

"I confess to the Russian multinational people"

At about 5 pm on Monday, Kamardin and Popova were taken out of the apartment. The young man was led in handcuffs, and in the car they buried his head in his knees and forbade him to move. In this state, the young people were brought to the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Tverskoy District.

on the telegram channel 112 At about eight in the evening, a video appeared . It shows Kamardin, another participant in poetry readings, Nikolai Daineko, and activist Yegor Shtovb, on their knees, apologizing and promising never to participate in any political activity again.

“I apologize, I apologize and I repent to the Russian multinational people for what I said yesterday on Triumphal Square,” says Kamardin on the recording. There are bruises on his face. According to Popova, before this filming, the police washed the blood off his face so that no signs of torture could be seen on the footage, and then forced him to his knees.

Around nine o'clock Novaya Gazeta. Europe” wrote about the rape of the poet and the torture of Popova. At about two in the morning, an ambulance arrived for Kamardin, but the young man was refused hospitalization, despite serious injuries.

“He has a concussion. At night, he was denied admission to the hospital and sent to a temporary detention facility. He is now in the status of a suspect. So far, there is only a medical certificate from an ambulance; it says: abrasions, a closed craniocerebral injury and concussion, ”Kamardin’s lawyer Leonid Solovyov told Kholod.

Now Artem Kamardin has been detained for 48 hours. He is suspected of inciting hatred and enmity with the threat of violence against “members of the volunteer armed groups of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics” (paragraph “a” of part 2 of article 282 of the Criminal Code). Under the same article, Daineko and Shtovb were detained for 48 hours.

Alexandra Popova, after a long interrogation, was released in the status of a witness in the same case. After that, the girl went to the hospital. In the certificate, which Popova published on her Instagram, it is written that she has “a closed craniocerebral injury, bruising of the soft tissues of the head, thighs, and lower legs, and exfoliation of the skin of the left hand.”

The detainees mentioned that they were beaten and raped by employees of the Grom special unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. But Leonid Solovyov did not confirm this information to Kholod. He said that the Thunder's patches were very familiar to him, and "they weren't them." The lawyer could not remember what kind of stripes were on the uniform of the security forces.