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On Red Square, officers from the Federal Protective Service stopped 19-year-old Muscovite Yana because of a badge reading “This will definitely pass”. Later, the police detained her, and the next day she was summoned to the station again and officers began searching through her phone. RusNews reports with a reference to the grassroots group “For Ekaterina Duntsova.”
On 16 October, the police took Yana’s badge, seized her bag, phone and documents, and took her first to Kitay-gorod Police Department, then to Arbat Police Department. According to activists, she was insulted and psychologically pressured there for several hours. In addition, officers suggested she sign a contract, apparently with the Ministry of Defence: “Maybe you’ll sign a contract—at least then you’d be useful to someone.”
By evening Yana was released, but after about half an hour she started receiving calls from the police demanding she come back, which drove her into “a severe emotional state,” the initiative group said. The next day, 17 October, she was summoned to the station again, where officers from Centre “E” arrived. They demanded access to her phone and found a saved song by the band Pornofilmy, which, according to the initiative group, Yana listened to on her headphones and did not publish anywhere.
After this, officers began to threaten her with charges for displaying “extremist” symbols (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences), searching for knowingly “extremist” materials and accessing them (Article 13.53), as well as “discrediting” the Russian army (Article 20.3.3).
The officers suggested that Yana sign a “voluntary” consent for a search of her flat. She refused to do so without a lawyer present. According to the grassroots group, she was not given any procedural documents.