Russia: Peaceful Protesters Detained, Abused(Moscow) – Russian police arbitrarily detained hundreds of people during peaceful protests on June 1. Moscow and St. Petersburg, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch interviewed more than a dozen people detained during the protests. Riot police in both cities used excessive force against protesters. If protesters questioned their detentions or refused to go willingly, the police handled them roughly and in some cases dragged them on the ground, beat them with truncheons, kicked them with booted feet, and punched them.
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Some of the abuse took place in full view of observers who filmed it with video cameras and cell phones. People also experienced ill- treatment near or inside police buses. Russian police arbitrarily detained hundreds of people during peaceful protests on June 1. Moscow and St. Petersburg. Human Rights Watch interviewed more than a dozen people detained during the protests. “The mass detentions on June 1. Tanya Lokshina, Russia program director at Human Rights Watch. People have a right to free assembly, authorized or not.”Thousands of people gathered in Moscow and St.
Petersburg to protest corruption on June 1. Police detained 8. Moscow, including 1.
St. Petersburg, about 1. Among those detained in both cities were protesters, passersby, human rights advocates, and journalists. Witnesses and former detainees told Human Rights Watch that police arrested people who were not causing a disturbance and in many cases were not even chanting slogans or carrying posters, and charged them with violating regulations on mass gatherings or resisting police orders. The chairperson of President Vladimir Putin’s Human Rights Council, Mikhail Fedotov, said that in St.
Petersburg, “People were detained irrespective of whether they violated public order or not. And this is inconsistent with the law.”A couple sits in front of riot police standing guard during an anti- corruption protest on Tverskaya Street in central Moscow, Russia, June 1. Maxim Shemetov/ReutersHuman Rights Watch interviewed nine people who were detained in Moscow and released several hours later, either without charge or pending court hearings. One protester interviewed in Moscow spent a week in hospital with a concussion and other trauma after a riot police officer hit her. We also interviewed four people who were detained in St. Petersburg and spent between 3. Protesters, rights advocates, and lawyers in both cities told Human Rights Watch that riot police officers’ badges were hidden by bulletproof vests, so it was impossible to identify them and they ignored protesters’ requests to identify themselves.
Riot police detain a man during an anti- corruption protest on Tverskaya Street in central Moscow, Russia, June 1. Tatyana Makeyeva/Reuters The protesters detained in St. Petersburg were held at precincts that were not designed to accommodate large numbers of overnight detainees. Detainees had to take turns sleeping on the floor or in chairs. They had to rely on rights activists to bring them food and drinking water. Police officials at some of the precincts denied lawyers and lay advocates access to their clients.
Police officials who take people into custody have an obligation to provide them with decent accommodations and to meet their basic needs, Human Rights Watch said.Detainees in both cities described identical, rubber- stamped police charge sheets. Not all those charged had had their administrative court hearings by the time they spoke with Human Rights Watch, but most of those who did were fined between 3,0. US$5. 0 to US$2. 50) and/or sentenced to up to 1. In some cases, authorities in St. Petersburg would not allow lay advocates, journalists, and observers into the courtrooms where hearings were held.Russia is a party to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), both of which guarantee the right to peaceful assembly, as does the Russian constitution. The European Court of Human Rights (ECt. HR), has repeatedly emphasized that a lack of authorization for a peaceful protest does not justify infringements on freedom of assembly, but rather that the authorities should show tolerance toward protesters.
A cell in one of the police precincts in St. Petersburg where the June 1. Private for Human Rights Watch.
The ECt. HR has also made it clear that the freedom to take part in a peaceful assembly is so important that participants should not be subjected to any penalty – even at the lower end of the scale – for participation in a demonstration that has been prohibited, so long as the person does not commit any individual reprehensible act. The government also has a duty to investigate and remedy violations of the right to assembly.“Peaceful protesters shouldn’t be detained in the first place, nor should they be beaten or abused or held in dreadful conditions,” Lokshina said. Russian authorities should uphold the rule of law and ensure accountability for excessive use of force and other violations against peaceful protesters.”June 1. Protests in Moscow and St.
PetersburgJune 1. Hd Video Download The Happy Elf on this page. Russia Day, a public holiday. Moscow authorities had approved an anti- corruption rally on that day on Sakharov Avenue in the city center.
However, on June 1. Alexei Navalny, announced that the authorities had interfered with the construction of the stage and delivery of sound equipment and called on his supporters to gather at Tverskaya Street, Moscow’s main thoroughfare, at 2 p. Moscow authorities warned those intending to follow Navalny’s call that Tverskaya Street was the site for the official Russia Day festivities and that police would not allow any unsanctioned gatherings there.The head of Moscow’s department for regional security described Navalny’s call as provocative.
Riot police detained Navalny just after 1 p. June 1. 2 and on June 1. Moscow court sentenced him to 3. On June 1. 6, an appeals court reduced the sentence to 2. The approved demonstration on Sakharov Avenue took place without any police interference.The authorities in St. Petersburg refused to approve an anti- corruption rally at Marsovo Polye, in the city center, for which the organizers had filed a notification well in advance. Citing official festivities at that location, officials suggested that the protesters gather in Udelny Park, on the city’s outskirts.
Organizers rejected this option due to its remote location and went ahead with the original plan, despite the authorities’ warnings that protesters would be detained. Mass DetentionsThere was a large- scale police presence at both unapproved protest sites. The exact numbers of protesters in both cities are difficult to estimate but the scope of detentions was clearly massive.Moscow city authorities estimated that about 5,0. Tverskaya Street. It is difficult to assess this estimate, considering that the protesters joined the crowds gathered there for official festivities. According to OVD- Info, a prominent independent group monitoring arbitrary detentions and police abuse, Moscow authorities detained 8. According to Moscow’s regional security department, 1.
The children were released to their parents on the same day. All except 3. 2 of the adult detainees were released from custody before midnight or just after, either without charge or pending administrative court hearings for violating regulations on public gatherings. A spokesman for OVD- Info, Grigory Okhotin, told Human Rights Watch that the 3. Most were sentenced to between seven and 1. In St. Petersburg, local authorities estimated that at least 3,5.
According to OVD- Info, police in St. Petersburg detained 6. Alexandra Krylenkova, a leading activist with the St. Petersburg Support Group for Detainees (SGD), an ad hoc coalition of local rights groups and volunteers, told Human Rights Watch that “the only people the police authorities released by the end of the day were those under 1.