Nine Muscovites detained at a rally in support of politician Alexei Navalny are being held by police for the second day. This was reported by OVD-Info.
According to the human rights project, the court had previously not accepted the protocols regarding the detainees and returned the materials to the police “to eliminate shortcomings.” Then the residents of Moscow were given passports and a ruling stating that no administrative violation had been identified in their actions. After this, the security forces brought the detainees back to the department, six of them were kept in a paddy wagon, and three more were taken to a cell at the Izmailovo police station. to see the detainees . are also not allowed Lawyers from OVD-Info, Alana Kibizova and Konstantin Markin,
"That's fucked up. You just sleep in the refrigerator, sit in the refrigerator, without a blanket, on an icy concrete hard bench, without a mattress. And the wall is icy. And the air is icy. There is no chair. Only ice benches and ice walls, impossible to lean on. Go to the toilet occasionally on a scheduled basis. If you knock and call, they don’t respond at all. We asked to warm ourselves up with at least something - a blanket, a blanket, boiling water, tea - but they didn’t give us anything. They just yelled at us and insulted us,” said one of the detainees.
In total, according to OVD -Info, more than 120 people were detained in 27 cities at the June 4 rallies in support of Navalny throughout Russia. Most of the arrests took place in Moscow - it is known that at least 64 people were taken to the capital’s police departments, of which 14 were brought to the Izmailovo police station.