The police drew up a report on the detained Moscow activist ( her name is known to OVD-Info ) because of the action in outfits from the dystopia “The Handmaid’s Tale”. This was told to OVD-Info by lawyer Leysan Mannapova, who was not allowed into the Tverskoy police department to help the detainee.
On November 12, a woman and other activists came to the State Duma in connection with the adoption of a law banning “childfree propaganda.” The department filed a report against her for violating the procedure for holding a rally (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code) and released her on an obligation to appear, setting the trial for November 18 in the Tverskoy District Court.
In the protocol, the local police officer indicated that the woman, while at the State Duma building on November 12, with two other activists, put on “pre-prepared red cloaks and snow-white caps, which became symbols of women deprived by the totalitarian patriarchal state of basic human rights to dispose of their lives and bodies.” The security officer considered this “a means of visual propaganda.” However, he did not specify what he was campaigning for.
The girls “attracted the attention of passing citizens, the media and bloggers.” Moreover, the event was not coordinated, the operative indicates in the protocol.
When the activist asked why the lawyer could not be allowed in, the security forces at the department answered: “Because.” Lawyer Mannapova is preparing to file an application for non-admission. The security forces informed her that they did not have a detainee.
This afternoon, security forces came to the apartment of another protest participant, feminist Tatyana Sukhareva. She said that at the time of the police’s visit she was not at home, so the security forces went to her neighbor and reported that they had allegedly received a complaint against her. The activist is sure that the reason was the action against the law banning “childfree propaganda.”
- On November 12, Sukhareva and two other activists came to the State Duma building in costumes reminiscent of the robes in Gilead, a fictional state from Margaret Atwood’s dystopia “The Handmaid’s Tale” and the TV series based on it.
- On the same day, State Duma deputies unanimously adopted a law banning “childfree propaganda” in the final reading. It will be considered the dissemination of information on the Internet, the media, cinema and advertising, which is aimed at creating a “distorted idea of the social equivalence of having children and refusing to bear children” or “imposing information about refusing to bear children” or “raising interest in refusing to bear children.”