Moscow courts have arrested six more people detained at Bolotnaya Square.
The Meshchansky District Court sentenced Ekaterina Wagner to 15 days of administrative arrest for disobeying police orders (Part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Administrative Offences Code), reports “Slovo Zashchite.” She has also been issued a protocol for violating the rules of holding a public event (Part 5 of Article 20.2), which has not yet been reviewed.
“Ekaterina does not consider herself to be part of any mass gathering; she believes she did not break the law. She was not disturbing anyone, nor did she take part in any unauthorised action. She was simply out for a walk with her nephews,” said lawyer Nataliya Tikhonova.
The day before, Ekaterina’s nephew said that the security forces beat him and forced him to testify against his aunt.
As reported by “Mediazona,” the same court issued 15 days of arrest each to Yaroslav Polyakov, Mikael Markaryan, and a third detainee who asked to remain anonymous, under the same disobedience article.
The Zamoskvoretsky District Court arrested two more people for petty hooliganism (Article 20.1). Aleksandr Shelestov received 15 days, and the second detainee—a woman—received 10 days.
The woman said she was detained while standing by a bench at Bolotnaya Square. A police officer demanded her passport. After she refused, the woman was taken to a police van.
Shelestov said he was sitting by the fountain when a police officer approached him and said he could not stay there. After Shelestov moved to a lamppost as instructed, another officer told him again to move, and he complied. After that, security personnel started calling him a protest coordinator and took his phone. Although they found nothing of interest on the device, Shelestov was still detained.
OVD-Info had not previously been aware of the detention of Shelestov, Polyakov and Markaryan—the total number of people detained in Moscow has now increased to 17.
The Zamoskvoretsky Court also returned to the police the protocol on petty hooliganism drawn up against Potemki Simagin. They will spend another day at “Alekseevskiy” police station (Simagin uses “they/them” pronouns), OVD-Info lawyer Aleksey Pinchuk said. The lawyer asked the court to summon the prosecutor, OMON officers, and police officers who made the arrest, as well as lawyer Oskar Cherdzhiev, who was not allowed to see Simagin yesterday. He also pointed out mistakes and discrepancies in the case file.
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