In Moscow, on Arbat, a 25-year-old picketer named Ilya was detained with a poster “Not only Zhuravel Nikita, but also Adam and Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov must be held accountable for evil.” This was reported by the telegram channel “Caution, News”.
“They said that they were checking documents to see if they had been involved before. Now I’m waiting for them to “accept” me. Probably in some department not far from Arbat, I don’t know for sure. I’m a lawyer, I was touched by this topic,” the detainee commented.
- on Palace Square in St. Petersburg On September 26, Alexander Sidelev was detained , who was standing with a poster “I/We are Nikita Zhuravel.” A protocol was drawn up against the picketer for violating covid restrictions (clause 2 of article 8.6.1 of the Law “On Administrative Offenses in St. Petersburg”).
- Nikita Zhuravel was sent to a pre-trial detention center in May on charges of insulting the feelings of believers (Part 2 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, a young man burned the Koran near a mosque on Povorinskaya Street in Volgograd. He filmed the burning and distributed the recording via telegram. Subsequently, the Investigative Committee changed the territorial jurisdiction of the case, citing “numerous appeals from residents of the Chechen Republic with a request to recognize them as victims.” Zhuravel was taken to the Grozny pre-trial detention center. On August 16, he reported that the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, visited him in the detention center along with his son Adam, and the latter beat him. On September 25, the head of Chechnya published a video of the beating on his Telegram channel.
- According to the federal law on rallies, it is not necessary to notify the authorities about a single picket and agree on its location. You can read more about the rules for conducting a single picket in our instructions .