A resident of St. Petersburg was detained for a single picket in support of Zarema Musayeva

In St. Petersburg, law enforcement officers detained a man who went out to the City Duma building on Nevsky Prospekt with a poster "Freedom to Zarema Musayeva." It is reported by "OVD-Info".

The picketer is a local resident, Dmitry Kuzmin. The security forces took him to the department, where they drew up a protocol under the administrative article on anti-COVID restrictions and then released him. The maximum fine for such a violation is 4000 rubles.

Zarema Musaeva is the mother of the Chechen oppositionists Abubakar, Ibragim and Baisangur Yangulbaev. In January last year, she was kidnapped by security forces from an apartment in Nizhny Novgorod and taken to Grozny. Later, a criminal case was opened against her under the article on the use of violence against a police officer and she was sentenced to five and a half years in prison.

We also recall that on July 4, Novaya Gazeta journalist Yelena Milashina and Musayeva's lawyer Alexander Nemov, who were on their way to sentencing Zarema Musayeva, were attacked. They were beaten by armed men in balaclavas.

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