The woman detained in Moscow will be tried for a ribbon of the colors of the Ukrainian flag

The girl detained in Moscow for wearing a ribbon of the colors of the Ukrainian flag was left at the police station until the trial, which is expected to take place on Monday, the human rights project “OVD-Info” reports. At the same time, it is not known what offense the detainee is accused of, the lawyer was not allowed to see her. Her name is also not disclosed.

The day before in Moscow, the police stopped a group of young people in the “Arbatskaya” metro station because one of the members of the company had attached a blue-yellow ribbon and a badge with the image of a rainbow-colored cow 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 the backpack, who was initially noticed by the police, was left in the pre-trial detention cell for the night.

• 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.