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The members of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot Veronica Nikulshina and Maria Alekhina were arrested today by the police. Earlier, other members of Pussy Riot, Vasily Andrianov and Elizaveta Diederich, were taken to the police station.
In Moscow, the police detained a participant Russian punk band Pussy Riot Veronica Nikulshina, reported the OVD-Info website on October 8 with reference to a member of the group, Alexander Sofeyev.
During the arrest, they used brute force against Nikulshina. They took her to the Meshchansky police station. OVD-Info lawyer Sergei Telnov also went there.
The Dozhd television channel announced the arrest of another Pussy Riot activist, Maria Alekhina, in the design neighborhood of Flacon. The television channel published a video on Telegram in which two policemen drag her.
Petr Verzilov, member of Pussy Riot cleared up on Twitter that Alekhina was detained before an interview with “Rain” at the entrance of the channel’s newsroom.
Masha has just been arrested @all_marios Alekhina just before the interview with Dozhd at the entrance to the editorial office. pic.twitter.com/BQeKG8WwUE
– Pyotr Verzilov (@gruppa_voina) October 8, 2020
Alekhina and Nikulshina’s phones were taken away, writes OVD-Info.
The Mediazona newspaper reports on the visit of security agents to Nikulshina’s house. Journalists also noticed police officers near Sofeyev’s home.
On the night of October 7, two members of the Pussy Riot group, Vasily Andrianov and Elizaveta Diederich, were arrested. They were taken to the police station.
Security forces arrested after the action Pussy Riot on birthday Russian President Vladimir Putin. On the morning of October 7, rainbow LGBT flags were hung on “the main symbols of the Russian state”: in the buildings of the Federal Security Service of Russia, the Presidential Administration, the Supreme Court, the Ministry of Culture and the Department of the Interior in the Basmanny district.
On the Pussy Riot Facebook page, they explained that they chose those flags as a symbol of the loss of love and freedom. The protesters published their demands to the Russian government and personally to Putin. Among them: investigating the murders and kidnappings of gay, lesbian, transgender people in Chechnya, stopping pressure on activists helping the LGBT community and legalizing same-sex relationships.
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