🛑In #Russia, past 24 hrs. Thread: #Putin's terror. Arrests, beatings, tortures, court hearings, & sentences w/o the accused & defenders, raids, intimidation. The court turns down the appeal for #Navalny. Navalny says, "We will not be intimidated." Unprecedented. Please RT. 👇🏽 🛑
Today, the court in the Moscow region recognized the detention of #AlexeyNavalny for 30 days as legal. Earlier, the court sentenced Navalny to 30 days stay in prison.
https://twitter.com/teamnavalny/status/1354765870468386816
Journalists were not allowed into the courtroom but could watch the broadcast on the screen in the conference room. Navalny found out his apartment was searched, his brother was arrested for violation of COVID sanitation rules, the sound was turned off.
https://twitter.com/teamnavalny/status/1354755947453931524
Navalny's defense intends to appeal the court decision. "The law is on our side. Nobody had any particular hopes for changing the preventive measure ”
#Navalny's last word (translated from part of the video below): "I would like to express my support to all people who are arrested, subjected to other repressions, searches, persecutions, just for being honest and not being afraid...
#Navalny: "I want to express my support to all those who took to the streets, because they are, in fact, the only and last obstacle on the way to a complete degradation in which our country is slipping, the last obstacle in the way of those in power to finally steal everything...
#Navalny" "They are the defenders of our country and the patriots of our country. All these Khimki, Simonov, Basmanny, and other courts, police departments, and prosecutors' offices just demonstrate lawlessness to incite fear. Let me repeat, you can't intimidate us...
#Navalny: "We are the majority. Those tens of millions of people who have been robbed by this government cannot be intimidated, despite the fact that, of course, the people under arrest are suffering...
#Navalny: "But I am glad that more and more people understand now that the law is on our side and that the truth is on our side, and we will not allow a bunch of evil people to impose their orders in our country." #navalnyprotests thread
Meanwhile, all over the country, arrests, raids continued. In St. Petersburg, a series of raids took place, several arrested for taking part in protest, including a father of 7. Police breaks into apartment at 6 am, with machine-guns, in balaklavas mbk-news.appspot.com/news/lomov/
In Moscow, 173 parents of children who participated in the action on January 23 were brought to court. Moscow, police raids an apartment of an activist's parents--he moved out 8 yrs ago
https://twitter.com/jankauskas_k/status/1354804105634402322
In Moscow, an activist is arrested by cops in balaclavas, taken to jail in a police van with an alarm (
https://twitter.com/kadetovaa_/status/1354798518402043909)
In Moscow, a lawyer, arrested in a courtroom where he defended the rights of a patient, by balaclava-clad police/force enforcement
https://twitter.com/ioannZH/status/1354720338551169026
Horrifying, even for Putin's Russia: In Nizhny Novgorod, police searches an apartment of an accredited journalist Margarita Murakhtaeva whose mother Irina Savina burned herself protesting an apartment raid, in Oct 2020. Husband/father opens the door. novayagazeta.ru/news/2021/01/2…
Also in Nizhny Novgorod, Navalny's coordinator disappears, later located at a police station; later police denies his arrest. He is still missing.
https://twitter.com/teamnavalny_nn/status/1354796456356573184
In Khabarovsk, a priest and two journalists are arrested
https://twitter.com/teamnavalnykhv/status/1354739054244487168
In Pyatigorsk, a single mother of a 5y.o. was arrested, witnessed brutal beatings of arrested male protestors, was fired from her job, her college, and evicted and fined ($100)--her monthly salary used to be $100/month, too. mbk-news.appspot.com/suzhet/rasskaz…
In Orel, a man is fined for $263 for a social media post with a call to join protest.
https://twitter.com/MBKhMedia/status/1354810232329838594
In Ulan-Ude, a blogger was arrested and sentenced to 25 days in prison for covering the protests. The trial was held without the accused and the defender. mbk-news.appspot.com/news/v-ulan-ya…
In Moscow, a TicToc blogger was arrested, beaten up and starved for two days. Ten other bloggers were detained at the same time. mbk-news.appspot.com/news/zaderzhan…
Rostov-na-Donu, Tver, Syktyvkar, young, old, women, men, children, the list goes on and on, & I'm unable to collect and translate it all. I will continue monitoring and covering. Pls RT so the world knows about the crimes of #Putin's regime. #Navalny #navalnyprotests #Russia 🧵☝
Also, watch #Navalny's video about #PutinsPalace before it goes off the air. They are trying to take it down. It got almost 100 million views by now. English subtitles, just click CC in the right bottom corner. Russia will be free!
Update: all activists are sentenced to home arrest without access to the Internet; mostly for violating sanitary regime. #Putin is afraid and tries hard to suppress the protests on Jan 31, planned in 90 cities. 👆🏼🧵 #Navalny #navalnyprotests #RussiaProtests
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