High -tech raids

In Moscow and regions - mass detention of migrants. Law enforcement officers use the recognition program "Sphere"

According to human rights activists of the Memorial Center (recognized by the Ministry of Justice as a “foreign agent” and liquidated), and mass antimigrant raids began in Moscow and in the regions of Russia. The head of the Migration and Law program, human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina (the Ministry of Justice also considers it a “foreign agent”) reports that on June 2, human rights activists were informed of the detention were reported by more than 30 of their applicants - refugees to whom the lawyers of the Migration and Law program provide assistance in obtaining the status. Judging by the calls that the employees of “migration and rights” actually come around the clock, we can talk about dozens, if not hundreds of detainees.

What is important: it turned out from the surveys of foreign citizens that the detentions are “point” - police officers either approach foreign citizens in the subway or detain them at home. One of the employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow confirmed to human rights defenders that for the detention of migrants they actively use the program for recognizing the persons "SFRA" (a network of intellectual video cameras with the function of recognizing persons installed in the Moscow Metro), coordinated with the Safe City program.

Most of the applicants who told the lawyers of “migration and rights” about detentions are migrants from Afghanistan. This is one of the largest refugee foreign diasporas in Russia. As a rule, the Afghans are saved in Russia from endless military operations in their homeland. But among the detainees there are also immigrants from the Congo, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.

Since the beginning of June, information about mass raids has come to human rights activists from the regions of Russia. At the moment, it is known about the detention of migrants in St. Petersburg, Obninsk, Kazan, Voronezh, the Tver region, the Saratov region and Rostov-on-Don.

In St. Petersburg , according to lawyers, cooperating with the Migration and Law network, more than 60 people were detained and placed in TsVSIG (temporary maintenance center). In Kazan, migrant employees are explained by the police officers explain massive inspections in preparations for the international event “Sports Games of the BRICS countries”, which will be held in the capital of Tatarstan from June 12 to 23. According to the lawyer of one of the lawyers of Kazan, in the cases of all detained migrants, judges "make a decision on forced expulsion from Russia." The victims of these raids were mainly citizens of Afghanistan and a large group of Cuba citizens.

In Voronezh , according to a local lawyer, who also cooperates with “migration and right”, “migrants are sent to court in packs. Check markets, construction, places of mass residence of foreign citizens. When considering the complaint <, the judges also check the grounds for the acquisition of Russian citizenship of relatives of the detainee to create the grounds for canceling it. ”

In the Saratov region , according to a local lawyer specializing in the help of refugees, “since the beginning of 2024, 894 inspections have been conducted in the residential sector and places of mass stay of foreign citizens. 1122 foreign citizens who violated migration legislation were identified. 865 people are expelled. At the moment, raids are ongoing. ”

Moreover, the Governor of the Saratov region, Roman Busargin, after the terrorist attack in Crocus City in Moscow, adopted Decree No. 99 “On the establishment of for 2024, the prohibition on attracting business entities engaged in the territory of the Saratov region, foreign citizens engaged in labor activities on the basis of patents, for certain types of economic activity.” This resolution prohibits foreign citizens, and it is for those who have a patent for labor activities, to work as drivers of public transport, taxi, and also carry out “activities to provide food and drinks”. For this definition, both sellers in grocery stores and catering officers fall, as well as couriers that deliver food.

In Rostov-on-Don, since the beginning of June, police officers have been raids on migrants in construction sites and markets. Moreover, the raids are carried out jointly by employees of the civil police and military, and besides violators of migration accounting, they also identify naturalized citizens (foreigners who have received Russian citizenship) who did not take up military registration.

So, according to the press service of the military investigative department of the RF IC for the Southern Military District, only during raid events in one of the Rostov’s clothing markets, law enforcement officers checked about 200 people, including foreigners, as well as persons who recently received citizenship of the Russian Federation. During this audit, 16 migrants of migration legislation of the Russian Federation and 18 naturalized citizens who did not take up military registrations, who were detained and forcibly sent to military commissariats were identified. Since the beginning of the year, over 300 naturalized citizens have been put on military registration in the Rostov Region. Contracts on military service in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation concluded 23 recently received citizenship of man and 12 foreigners.

The head of the Migration and Law program, Memorial Center, Svetlana Gannushkina directly connected this wave of detentions with a statement by the chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin.

On June 4, the TFR press service said that Bastrykin announced the importance of increasing control over migration flows and instructed to “continue the practice of conducting special raids in places of accumulation of visitors, including at retail outlets, construction facilities, sports clubs and hostels in order to identify offenses in the field of migration, as well as continue to take measures to take measures to perform measures to perform measures to take measures to take Military duty to naturalized citizens. "

The Investigative Committee substantiated these actions with an allegedly increased number of crimes committed by persons illegally in the Russian Federation. So, according to the SK, for 4 months of 2024, “14,070 crimes were committed by migrants. The number of rape increased by 40%, the number of serious acts committed by foreign citizens increased by 13%. ”

“However, none of those applicants of“ migration and law ”, who have been detained over the past two days, did not force and killed anyone,” says Gannushkin. - Their only offense (and not a crime, which is important) is a violation of migration accounting. In particular, the lack of registration at the time of receipt of refuge or appealing the refusal to receive it. And the main reason for this administrative offense is that registration in fact is not notifying, but permits. And therefore, it is extremely difficult to arrange it for our applicants. ”