Another Russian woman, a defendant in the Left Resistance case and former press secretary of the For Human Rights movement Alena Krylova, was detained in Kyrgyzstan. This was reported to Sota by three unnamed sources in Bishkek. This information was confirmed by a Mediazona source.
According to Sota interlocutors, Krylova was detained on June 4 during a walk in the center of Bishkek, the activist is going to be transferred to Russia. It is currently unknown where she is.
In 2021, the FSB department for Moscow and the Moscow region opened a case against Daria Polyudova about creating an extremist community because of her Left Resistance movement (Part 1 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). Other five activists, including Alena Krylova, accused of participating in this movement (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). In November of the same year, Krylova was added to the register of terrorists and extremists, she was put on the wanted list.
According to the FSB, Polyudova created the «Left Resistance» for «public calls for extremist activity.» The rest of the defendants, as stated in the decision to initiate the case, administered the VKontakte group, “carried out ideological propaganda” of the work of the Left Resistance, and “organized rallies, marches and pickets aimed at discrediting the authorities and provoking clashes with police officers.”
The human rights «Memorial» declared the case against the «Left Resistance» a political one. In 2022, a court in Moscow sentenced Polyudova to 9 years in prison. Memorial recognized the activist and other defendants as political prisoners.
In June, an activist of the Left Bloc, Lev Skoryakin, who was involved in the action “Happy Chekist Day” with Moscow, was also detained in Kyrgyzstan. He was taken to the building of the State Committee for National Security in Bishkek. In February, the Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow arrested Skoryakin in absentia, and in April he was put on the wanted list.
A few days before that, it became known that at the end of May, anarchist Alexei Rozhkov, a defendant in the case of an attempt to set fire to the military enlistment office in the Sverdlovsk region, was taken out from Kyrgyzstan and placed in SIZO-1 in the city of Berezovsky. The activist told his lawyer, Kamil Isabekov, that on arrival in Russia he was met by FSB officers. “A head bag, a shocker, everything is as usual,” Rozhkov added.
On June 10, a concert by the Pornofilmy group, which speaks out against the war in Ukraine, was disrupted in Bishkek. “The security forces came to the club where we were going to play with threats,” the musicians said. Other city venues also prevented the band from performing.