In St. Petersburg with a poster “Freedom for Nikita Zhuravel. Kadyrov is a killer,” 18-year-old Dmitry Kuzmin was detained. He himself told OVD-Info about this.
A young man stood in a single picket on Nevsky Prospekt near the Kazan Cathedral. He was taken to OP No. 28.
18:29 Rafail Polyakov, a lawyer from OVD-Info, came to Dmitry Kuzmin to help.
20:39 Dmitry Kuzmin was released from the police department, Rafail Polyakov reported. A protocol was drawn up against the young man for violating covid restrictions (clause 2 of article 8.6.1 of the Law “On Administrative Offenses in St. Petersburg”).
- on Palace Square in St. Petersburg On September 26, Alexander Sidelev was detained , who was standing with a poster “I/We are Nikita Zhuravel.” Two days later, in Moscow on Arbat, was taken to the police with a poster “Not only Zhuravel Nikita, but also Adam and Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov must be held accountable for evil.” a 25-year-old picketer named Ilya
- 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. Despite this, throughout Russia, picketers are regularly detained under various pretexts. You can read more about the rules for conducting a single picket in our instructions .