The person detained for the yellow-blue tape was accused of disobeying the police

Moscow resident Nina Nesterova, who was detained last Saturday for a ribbon of the colors of the Ukrainian flag on her backpack, was accused of disobeying police officers, reports SOTA.

On Monday, the Presnensky district court of the capital began to consider her case, but did not issue a verdict, scheduled a new hearing for February 13. The judge agreed to summon and interrogate the police officers who testified against the accused, who faces up to 15 days of arrest.

On February 5 in Moscow, the police stopped a group of young people in the “Arbatskaya” metro station because one of the members of the company had a blue-yellow ribbon and an icon of rainbow flowers attached to her backpack. The entire company was taken to the Arbat district police department. Eight hours later, three people were released without a report, and the girl with a backpack, who was initially noticed by the police, was left in a pretrial detention cell until Monday.

• At the end of last year, the editors of “OVD-Info” calculated that since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, at least 19 people had been detained in Russia for participation in anti-war rallies and pickets, for posts on social networks, as well as for expressing support for Ukraine in one form or another. thousand 443 people. This is a record number of people detained for political reasons over the past 10 years.