In Moscow, on Red Square, police detained Dmitry Bakhtin, who went on a picket demanding the provision of medicine to his sick son, and a SOTA journalist who was filming the action. This is reported by SOTA.
Bakhtin’s poster read “Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, save the child.” The men are being taken to the Kitay-Gorod police department; a lawyer from OVD-Info has already gone there.
This is not the first time Bakhtin has come forward to demand additional treatment for his son with spinal muscular atrophy. on pickets several times In August, the sick boy’s father went out in Moscow and Yekaterinburg.
10:40 Dmitry Bakhtin and the SOTA journalist were released from the Kitay-Gorod police station. This was reported by a lawyer from OVD-Info.
Bakhtin was handed a protocol on the refusal to initiate an administrative case for violating the procedure for holding the rally (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).
As Dmitry’s wife, Yana Bakhtin, told Kholod, their son still has not received the necessary medicine.
“Today, the child is still not provided with a vital drug. The Ministry of Health of the Sverdlovsk Region refuses to provide Misha with an existing prescription and the recommendation of the attending physician that it is recommended to continue Risdiplam therapy, taking into account the positive dynamics and the absence of adverse events. The prosecutor’s office is inactive,” the woman said .
- Participants in actions on various topics are regularly detained on Red Square: environmental activists , picketers with posters about Putin , against repression and torture , in support of political prisoners ; are also detained Actionists who held performances and ordinary citizens who stood with posters with a smiley face , a blank sheet of paper , or a declaration of love . In addition, journalists carrying out editorial assignments have been detained on Red Square more than once.