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It is stated that there are no reasons for officials to detain these persons any longer. Several detainees reported this to Meduzai.
The bus, which featured Mediazona editor-in-chief Sergei Smirnov, was detained for 25 days for sharing a joke about himself on Twitter and entering the central area at 5:30 in the morning.
we are holding on, but we haven’t slept since Tuesday, we spent four hours waiting in the rice wagon, two hours on the way, and now we’re in a queue of rice wagons and we won’t sleep when # Freedom to Bulk #FreedomRussia pic.twitter.com/dRApILWDh1
– Sitting bull (@marisaugolkova) February 3, 2021
This is a video from TsVSIG in Sakharovo. More than 6 buses with detainees have been waiting for their turn to register for several hours. Subscriber Video pic.twitter.com/3HFNWOyU4I
– MBH Media (@MBKhMedia) February 4, 2021
S. Smirnov spent at least three hours near the center, and the next bus lined up for five hours before reaching the building.
Eight o’clock in the morning: “They brought water, they very politely asked to have a little patience and everyone will be relocated normally. Of course it is infuriating, but here it seems that there are about 100 people sitting in 4 cells, one woman. “About 10 promised to try to resettle.
– Smirnov (@sssmirnov) February 4, 2021
People who freeze on buses say drivers turn off engines to save fuel, making the cabin as cold as outside. Detainees are only allowed to take to the streets after intrusive requests.
Reporters also reported that some buses are turning around and heading back to police stations, and buses with people are leaving some stations. Around five in the morning, the Telegram channel Protestnyj MGU wrote that 28 detainees were released from the bus, taken to an isolation building and placed in an eight-seater cell with metal beds without mattresses.
Take a look at this photo. Tomorrow in a special isolation room in Sakharovo. In a cell for 8 people, 28 people sleep after a sleepless night on buses. In the center of the frame, holding the bar, Smirnov is trying to sleep. Complete collapse. pic.twitter.com/WOc8xH4s4v
– Pyotr Verzilov (@gruppa_voina) February 4, 2021
In two photos taken with the cameras, among other detainees, S. Smirnov can be identified. Neither in the Foreign Detention Center itself nor in the Emergency Information Response Division of the Ministry of the Interior did anyone respond to Mediazona’s calls.
“He brought water, very politely asked for a little patience until everyone was distributed normally. Of course it is annoying, but there, as I understand it, there are almost a hundred people sitting in four cells, “says S. Smirnov, whose Twitter account is managed by the editorial office after his arrest.
“The woman separated and all the men on the two buses crashed into a cell: 28 people and four bunks (that is, the cell was for eight people). Since there were no inspections or searches, this was simply due to a shortage of places, ”says S. Smirnov.
Speaking to anti-extremism officials, Smirnov was hit in the abdomen.
“There were two officials from the Board of Directors of the Russian Interior Ministry against resistance to extremism. One is still so nothing, and the other is more rude, he tried to use force and the first stopped him. Forced to block the phones, I showed him my Telegram and my contact list, and he rewrote all my spam bots last month. I don’t know what he will do with that information. I got hit in the stomach, well it’s even hard to tell, because it was too late and everyone is in very bad shape, “says S. Smirnov.
Judging from the photos, Dmitry Ivanov, the author of the Telegram channel Protestny MGU, is sitting in the same cell with S. Smirnov. He writes that he spent 16 hours on the bus downtown.
My grandmother was in a concentration camp in Salaspils in Latvia.
In general, also for politics, like a Russian, like the wife of a Latvian military man, a communist.
And so Russia, in the year of the 76th anniversary of the victory, managed to start creating concentration camps for politicians. https://t.co/iqwQKKVoTM– Oleg Kozyrev (@oleg_kozyrev) February 4, 2021
S. Smirnov was detained for 25 days
A Moscow court on Wednesday sentenced Smirnov, editor-in-chief of the Mediazona news portal, to 25 days of administrative arrest, repeatedly violating “the rules for organizing public events.”
“Smirnov is found guilty by a court ruling … he is sentenced to 25 days of administrative detention,” the court’s press service said in a statement.
Last Saturday, S. Smirnov, editor of a portal that focuses on news from Russia’s judicial, police and prison system, particularly against opposition supporters, was arrested at his home in Moscow as he prepared to take a walk with his son and took him to a police station, where he was transferred to a police station. Administrative rape protocol. The journalist was accused of calling for participation in protests in many Russian cities on January 23, during which he expressed solidarity with the arrested Kremlin critic Alexei Navaln.
The human rights organization Apologija Protest, which organizes Smirnov’s legal defense, stated that the court did not heed the request of journalist Fyodor Siroš’s lawyer to call the testimonies of the policemen who presented the complaints, which were included in the file, as well as the wife of S. Smirnov. The activists indicated that the judge also refused to allow a linguistic test to determine whether the disputed record published by S. Smirnov actually called for participation in the protests.
“We will appeal the decision,” Apologia protested.
According to a report prepared by the police, on January 20 Smirnov posted on Twitter an invitation to participate in the campaign to support Navaln, which was not authorized by the services.
However, Smirnov claimed that he only shared a humorous image in which he wrongly named Tarakany’s soloist Dmitry Spirin, who was supporting A. Navalna.
Over the past two weekends, tens of thousands of Russians have taken to the streets to support the country’s fiercest critic, President Navaln, who was poisoned by Novičiok last August and taken to Germany for treatment.
A total of more than 10,000 protesters were arrested across Russia and a number of criminal cases were filed after the demonstrations.
The mass protests in more than a hundred Russian cities were sparked by Navaln’s arrest on January 17. The opposition was detained at the Moscow airport less than an hour after returning to Russia from Germany.
On Tuesday, the court ruled that the 44-year-old anti-corruption activist would have to spend two years and eight months behind bars for violating the terms of a probation sentence imposed on him in a 2014 embezzlement case. A. Navaln claims that those accusations were only a pretext to silence him.
This case is one of the most serious challenges for the Kremlin in recent years, with some Western politicians demanding new sanctions on Moscow.
Theater of the Absurd
Mediazona editor Piotr Verzilov, one of the activists from the Pussy Riot protest group, wrote in a Twitter post about Smirnov’s arrest: “This is the first arrest of the media editor-in-chief in Russian history.”
“The Kremlin is not only trying to suppress the protests, but also to intimidate journalists who write about what is happening,” he added.
Verzilov pointed out that Smirnov had not participated in the January 23 demonstrations.
Smirnov’s imprisonment has received widespread condemnation from international organizations and the Russian media.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) described the punishment of the Mediazona editor as a “theater of the absurd”.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called on the Russian authorities to allow journalists to work without fear.
“CPJ is concerned about the illegal harassment of @mediazzzona editor-in-chief Sergei Smirnov and calls for his immediate release,” the committee wrote on Twitter.
The Russian media association Sindikat 100 said Smirnov had been jailed for a “joke about himself” but emphasized that it was revenge for his work.
“The journalist community is convinced that Smirnov’s arrest is related to his professional activities,” the report says.
Russia’s leading independent daily Novaya Gazeta said it would publish “key Mediazona articles” over the next 25 days, showing solidarity.
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