The Prosecutor General's Office found no violations in the actions of the police who tortured girls detained at an anti-war rally in Moscow

The Prosecutor General's Office did not conduct a procedural check on the fact of torture of girls detained at an anti-war rally. During the internal audit, the department did not find violations in the actions of the security forces. This was announced by Moscow City Duma deputy Yevgeny Stupin, who sent an audio recording with the sounds of beatings of detainees in the Brateevo police department to the authorities.

“None of the officials questioned the authenticity of the audio recording, but no criminal case has been initiated. The last letter signed by First Deputy Prosecutor General Razinkin A.V.: there are no grounds for conducting a procedural check,” Stupin wrote on his Telegram channel.

Marina, 22, Anastasia, 19, and Alexandra, 26, were detained on March 6, 2022, at an anti-war rally in central Moscow. They were taken to the Brateevo police station, where, together with other detainees, they were summoned in turn for interrogation in a separate room. There, a plainclothes police officer demanded answers to questions, insulted the detainees, beat them with a bottle of water, put a plastic bag over their heads and threatened them with a gun. One of the detainees managed to record the interrogation on a dictaphone.

Subsequently, the dictaphone recording, in which the policeman, in particular, boasts that he can kill the detainees and “he will not get anything for it,” was widely quoted in the Russian and foreign press.

With the help of journalists from the BBC Russian Service, the victims identified the security forces involved in the torture. They turned out to be policeman Ivan Ryabov, who directly beat the detainees, and his leader, acting head of the Brateevo police department, Alexander Fedorinov. On the eve of March 8, 2023, the European Union imposed sanctions against officials involved in violence against women. The list included Ryabov and Fedorinov.

Source: Evgeny Stupin

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