The Troitsky District Court of Moscow arrested Roman Zhokhov, the defender of the Trinity Forest, who was detained during the day, for four days, according to his associates in a telegram.
In the Troitsky Forest, today there was a brawl between activists and workers installing a fence around the site, which is planned cut down. Several builders in red vests threw Zhokhov to the snow, one of them lay on his back and grabbed his neck.
An activist is being strangled in the Trinity Forest
An attack was made on Roman Zhokhov, one of the defenders of the Trinity Forest in Moscow. Roman interfered with the fencing of the forest.
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The police officers who arrived at the scene took away Zhokhov, Olga Slastunina, a lawyer of the initiative group of defenders of the Trinity Forest, and a 14-year-old teenager named Egor.
Zhokhov was arrested under the article on petty hooliganism (Part 1 of Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). According to the police, he swore. Slastunina, like Zhokhov, was brought to court, but the police took her back to the Troitsky police station and left her overnight.The 14-year-old was released. He told SOTA that in the department, the police insulted him, looked through the contents on the phone and “forced him to write false statements about the struggle of Trinity Forest activists.”
Detention of activists in Trinity Forest
Lawyer Olga Slastunina and activist Roman Zhokhov were detained by the police without explanation. This happened after a skirmish between the defenders of the Trinity Forest and the builders. They should be delivered to the Troitsk police department.
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«You can't treat us like slaves.» A report from the Trinity Forest, which was defended by hundreds of local residents
Deforestation for the construction of a school began near Troitsk in January 2022. The Moscow City Hall in press releases called it a «giant school» because of more than 2,000 planned places for students. The defenders of the forest had clashes with the guards, they were detained by the police several times. On January 16, 2023, activists said that during the installation of a fence in the forest, they were beaten by unknown people in balaclavas, who demanded that they leave.