Artiom Kamardine was arrested for declaiming a poem criticizing the military mobilization decreed by Putin.
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Meet was given on September 25 at 6 p.m., at the foot of the statue of Vladimir Maïakovski. It is there, in the center of Moscow, that the “readings of Mayakovski” take place, a traditional meeting of the local poetic scene since the 1950s. Artiom Kamardine, a regular at the event, launches with a Composition dedicated to military mobilization just decreed by Vladimir Putin – “Tue -moi, Milicien”, chanted poem in which he insults in crude terms the separatist republics of the Donbass and evokes the “common pits” of Ukraine.
Twenty -four hours and a few threats of death on the Internet later, the police are at the door of the 31 -year -old poet and his partner – more precisely the men of an elite group, masked faces, who scient The grinding holder and brutally stop the occupants of the apartment. The lawyer called by Kamardine is repressed.
The couple is then taken to one of the premises of the investigation committee, before reappearing in a video broadcast on a Telegram channel used by the police, on the night of September 26 to 27. The poet and two other activists present during “readings” have apologies, practice imported from Chechnya and become routine in Russia. Artiom Kamardine carries traces of blows on the face and says “repent in front of the multinational Russian people”.
filmed rape
History does not stop there. During the forty-eight hours lasting his preventive detention, the poet would have been raped with a dumbbell. This is what the Novaïa Gazeta Europe site said, version supported by the young man’s lawyer and friend. The first saw him during the night to be transported to the hospital by ambulance. The second, Alexandra Popova, told independent sites that she had heard her howls in a neighboring cell, before the men of the investigation committee force her to watch the video of rape.
M Me Popova herself has been threatened with collective rape. The young woman published a medical certificate of a concussion, bruising and abchorships on her head. Among other mistreatment, the police would also have sprayed his face and mouth of ultra-fortune glue.
Violence in places of detention – police stations or prisons – are a well -established practice in Russia, which only leads to sanctions. The last major revelation, in October 2021, supported by the publication of dozens of hours of videos, showed the existence of a system of rape organized by the administration in certain Russian prisons.
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