Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina was detained in Moscow, lawyer Daniil Berman told Mediazona.
The police detained her after visiting the inspector of the Federal Penitentiary Service, she is being taken to the police department in the Tverskoy district.
Photo from Maria Alekhina's Instagram
Alyokhina told Mediazone that the protocol was drawn up because of a photo she posted on Instagram in May 2015. The picture shows three girls in hijabs, one of them has the inscription on her clothes: VODKA DUDKA ISLAM. At the bottom of the photo is visible, presumably Arabic script, to the right and left of it are two swastikas.
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ps I was detained again and will soon be given 15 days pic.twitter.com/MSFeTRiUA0
— Maria Alyokhina (@all_mary) February 7, 2022
In 2021, Alyokhina was assigned a year of restriction of freedom on the «sanitary case» because of the post about the rally on January 23. The court found her guilty of incitement to violate sanitary and epidemiological rules.
The actionist was forbidden to leave her house at night, leave Moscow and participate in rallies, she was also obliged to report to the FSIN inspection twice a month.
In January, due to being seven minutes late home The Federal Penitentiary Service asked the court to ban Alyokhina and another person involved in the «sanitary case», deputy Lyusya Shtein, from going to bars.
Updated at 19:10. Details about the case have been added.