Three defenders of the Trinity Forest were detained due to an action against tree cutting

In Moscow, two civil activists were detained for protests against cutting down the Red Book forest. This was told by the defender from OVD-Info Evgeny Kurakin.

Now they are being taken to the Troitsk police department. According to SOTA, the defenders of the Trinity Forest were detained after a scuffle with workers installing a fence around a site that they plan to cut down.

13:33 Defender from OVD-Info Yevgeny Kurakin spoke about the detention of another defender of the Trinity Forest.

13:46 The names of two detained activists have become known - these are Roman Zhokhov and Olga Slastunina. Another detainee is a minor.

17:10 Protocols were drawn up against the activists under articles on petty hooliganism (part 1 of article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The police are going to take them to court. This was reported by the defender from OVD-Info Evgeny Kurakin.

17:47 The underage defender of the Trinity Forest was released from the building of the Trinity District Court. The hearing in his case will take place on another day.

19:12 Activist Olga Slastunina was left at the police station until the morning. The trial will take place tomorrow. OVD-Info was informed about this by defender Yevgeny Kurakin.

20:55 The Troitsky District Court arrested activist Roman Zhokhov for four days. He was charged with petty hooliganism (20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This is reported by the telegram channel "Mini-stories of a journalist".

On January 18 , an underage defender of the Trinity Forest said that at the police station, the police took away his phone and beat him with a book so that he would unlock the device. It is reported by SOTAvision.

The young man added that he was not allowed to see the documents and was required to slander other detainees.

Title has been changed due to new information.

14:00 Olga Slastunina was fined a thousand rubles, she was released from the hall here. This was told by the defender from OVD-Info Evgeny Kurakina, who represented the interests of the detainee.

In addition, SOTAvision reports that an ambulance was called to the police department where the woman spent the night. Slastunina told reporters that she was kept in an unheated concrete cell with no access to hot water.

On January 21, the Moscow City Court upheld the decision of the Troitsky District Court to arrest Roman Zhokhov. It is reported by SOTAvision.

• 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. In the winter of 2022, the confrontation between the defenders of the forest and the builders who work in it intensified.
• So, on February 12, 2022, the police detained more than 10 people who were on duty in the Trinity Forest. After that, on February 17 , 18 , 21 and 22, the police in different districts of Moscow searched for participants in this gathering, detained them and drew up offense reports against them.