In St. Petersburg, the security forces came with searches to the Sota journalist Victoria Arefyeva. This is reported by the publication itself.
According to Sota, the search is part of the case of «false mining» (part 2 of Article 207 of the Criminal Code). The door to the apartment of the Arefyeva family was broken down, their equipment was confiscated, and the journalist was taken away for interrogation.
The case is connected with a false report about the mining of the St. Petersburg City Court, clarifies Sota. Arefieva is detained for 2 days as a suspect.
“The editors are sure that in this way Victoria is being prevented from covering today’s anti-war rally in the city,” the newspaper writes. Khoroshenin. Both are already under a ban on certain actions in the case of an NGO that infringes on the rights of citizens (part 3 of article 239 of the Criminal Code), due to the announcement of an anti-war march on May 9.
With a search, they came to the St. Petersburg artist and activist of the Feminist Anti-War Resistance (FAS) Polina Titova, known as Palladya Bashurova. She has already been a defendant in two cases under the article on false mining.
Viasna called for rallies on the day the mobilization was announced, September 21, when more than 1,300 people were detained across the country, and also together with the FAS today, September 24 .
Searchs at the homes of current and former Viasna activists took place in May. Some of them became suspects in the case of false mining and were released with an obligation to appear, some became suspects in the case of the creation of an NGO that infringes on the rights of citizens, others left Russia.
The last month of Spring. Activists were called to an anti-war march on May 9 and became defendants in the case of an NGO that infringes on the rights of citizens
Updated at 08:44. Added details of the detention of Victoria Arefieva and data on the search at Bashurova's.