The detainees were taken to the police department, where reports were made under the article about violating the rules for holding public events.
On Saturday, in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, near the Black Tulip memorial, dedicated to the memory of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Chechnya, five people who took part in a flower-laying action were detained. This was reported by the Evening Vedomosti publication.
It is known that among those detained there are three women and two young men.
Detainees say the police’s actions were civil. According to them, the operation was led by an official of the regional Ministry of Public Security, Vitaly Sorokin. He warned the participants of possible prosecution if they did not leave the square within one minute. The detainees were taken to the police department, where reports were made under the article about violating the rules for holding public events.
In the Telegram channel of the movement of mobilized wives Way home It is said that five participants were detained by the police in the action organized by this movement. The day before Way home announced the tenth action of laying flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, but did not call for rallies in other cities.
Flower rallies, conducted by relatives of those mobilized, are held across the country every Saturday. Their participants demand that the country’s leadership sign a decree ending the mobilization.
The previous action took place on February 3 in Moscow and was timed to coincide with the 500th day of mobilization. Security forces then detained 27 people, mostly human rights activists and journalists.
It was previously reported that protests by relatives of those mobilized are gaining momentum in the Russian Federation.
In the Russian Federation, the wives of those mobilized picketed the Kremlin and the Ministry of Defense
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