At least 1,386 people were arrested in Russia this Wednesday in the protests called by a peace movement against the partial mobilization decreed by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to face the defeats suffered in Ukraine.
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“At least 1,386 people were arrested in 38 cities,” the independent organization OVD-Info reported today on its Telegram channel, which tracks arrests and has been declared “foreign agent” by Russian authorities.
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The human rights organization reported detainees in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Perm, 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 detained there are several journalists.
The Moscow Prosecutor’s Office indicated that it will punish organization and participation in illegal actions with up to 15 years in prison.
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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, 509 people were arrested in Moscow and at least 541 in St. Petersburg, the country’s second largest city.
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People arrested at anti-war rallies in Russia receive call-up papers
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.
“People detained at anti-war rallies in Russia are given call-up papers. Some are dropped off at police departments to be taken directly to the military police station in the morning,” the outlet reported. Nexta.
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.
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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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The Russian president accused the West of using Ukraine as an instrument to attack Russia.
In turn, the Russian Defense Minister, Sergey Shoigu, specified that a total of 300,000 reservists will be called up.
EFE
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