June 9, 2012

Four more people are detained in the course of continuing #оккупаймур picketing at Petrovka. Alisa Obraztsova, Vsevolod Chagaev, Tatiana Volkova and Alex Sheremet'ev are currently held inside a police van near the site. Sheremet'ev as already been detained earlier in the day at the same location, but was released later with no formal charges filed.
Ivan Smirnov, who was detained earlier at Petrovka is transferred from Tverskoe  Police Station to Krasnoselskoe Police Station, Vadim Dergachev says. The police has yet to establish Smirnov's identity since he carried no form of identification.
All persons detained today at Petrovka are released from the Tverskoe Police Station with no charges pressed. Ivan Smirnov, who claims to be an Uzbeki citizen is still held by the police as he failed to present any identification. He will remain at the police station until his identity is established.
Ivan Smirnov, who was among the detained earlier at Petrovka, is transferred from the Trverskoe Police Station to a special detention facility because it is not a citizen of Russian Federation and does not have any identification on him.
Seven people detained near the the Moscow Central Police Office at Petrovka 38 during #оккупаймур pickets are now held at Tverskoe Police Station. Two of them, Vadim Dergachev and Aleksey Sheremet'ev, were also detained during a protest at Petrovka in late May this year and sentenced to 2 and 5 days of administrative arrest. Today's arrests are the first detentions after the new law on meetings has been enacted. The new law imposes harsher penalties including fines of up to 300,000 rubles (roughly $9,000), and community service for participation in "unsanctioned" public rallies.
The police have arrested seven people during picket outside the Criminal Investigation Department at Petrovka 38. The picket at Petrovka #okkupaymur was held to support those arrested in connection with the riots on May 6 at the Bolotnaya Square. Vadim Dergachev, who is among the detained, reports that Daria Gladskih, Alex Sheremetyev, Ivan Smirnov, Julia Vlasenko, Dmitry Korotkov, Elena Glushkov were arrested with him. Presumably the detainees are taken to the Tverskoe precinct.
Two more people, Dennis Lutskevich and Yaroslav Belousov, were arrested in connection with the clashes with the police on May 6. To this moment there are seven people arrested in connection with this case: Alexander Dukhanina (under house arrest), Michael Kosenko, Stepan Zimin, Andrei Barabanov, Maxim Luzyanin, Denis Lutskevich, Jaroslav Belousov. According to the investigators, Denis Lutskevich, Jaroslav Belousov were attempting to break through a police formation and throwing rocks, broken tarmac at the police officers.