‘No to war and Putin to the Trench’ was what was heard in the demonstrations this Wednesday, September 21, in which at least 1,386 people were arrested.
The protests were called by a peace movement against the partial mobilization decreed by Russian President Vladimir Putin to face the defeats suffered in Ukraine.
“At least 1,386 people were arrested in 38 cities,” the independent organization ‘OVD-Info’, which tracks arrests and has been declared a “foreign agent” by the Russian authorities, reported on September 22 on its ‘Telegram’ channel. .
The human rights organization reported detainees in Moscow, St. Petersburg, YekaterinburgPerm, Ufa, Krasnoyarsk, Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Yakutsk, Ulan-Ude, Arkhangelsk, Korolev, Voronezh, Zheleznogorsk, Izhevsk, Tomsk, Salavat, Tyumen, Volgograd, Petrozavodsk, Samara, Surgut, Smolensk, Belgorod and other cities.
According to ‘OVD-Info’, the police acted with violence against the demonstrators and among those arrested are several journalists.
The Moscow Prosecutor’s Office indicated that it will punish the organization with up to 15 years in prison. and participation in illegal actions.
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The dissemination of calls to participate in illegal actions or to carry out other illegal acts on social networks will also be penalized administratively or criminally.
According to the latest data from ‘OVD-Info’, In Moscow, 509 people were arrested and in St. Petersburg, the country’s second largest city, at least 541.
The human rights organization denounced that there were cases in which police stations tried to get detainees to acknowledge receipt of summonses to recruitment cantons.
Putin announced on Wednesday a “partial mobilization” in a televised message to the nation, in which he accused the West of seeking the destruction of Russia..
The measure, which entered into force yesterday, is due to the need to defend the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, the president stressed.
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He explained that only reservists who have completed compulsory military service will be called up.
He insisted that the decision to launch a “preventive military operation (in Ukraine) was absolutely necessary and the only possible one”, since the Ukrainian attack on Donbas was inevitable.
The dissemination of calls to participate in illegal actions or to carry out other illegal acts on social networks will also be penalized administratively or criminally.
According to the latest data from ‘OVD-Info’, 509 people were arrested in Moscow and at least 541 in St. Petersburg, the country’s second largest city.
The human rights organization denounced that there were cases in which police stations tried to get detainees to acknowledge receipt of summonses to recruitment cantons.
Putin announced on Wednesday a “partial mobilization” in a televised message to the nation, in which he accused the West of seeking the destruction of Russia.
(Also: President Putin threatens to use nuclear weapons: ‘not bragging’).
The measure, which entered into force yesterday, is due to the need to defend the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, the president stressed.
He explained that only reservists who have completed compulsory military service will be called up.
He insisted that the decision to launch a “preventive military operation (in Ukraine) was absolutely necessary and the only possible one”, since the Ukrainian attack on Donbas was inevitable.
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