Last night in the early hours of the morning Valentina Chupik, the most dogged defender of migrants’ rights in Moscow, said she had been detained trying to return to Russia.
In a series of anxious msgs she said she’d been banned from Russia until 2051. I can no longer reach her
In a series of anxious msgs she said she’d been banned from Russia until 2051. I can no longer reach her
Chupik is the first point of call for thousands of migrants from Central Asia working in Moscow if anything happened, constantly fielding calls about bosses who didn’t pay up, bad landlords, abuse by law enforcement, deportation and so on
Here is TV rain coverage:
https://twitter.com/tvrain/status/1441664854104760320
Chupik had refugee status in Russia herself and said that at the border this had been overturned and her documents seized
More details here:
https://twitter.com/l_seiitbek/status/1441673209158397953
She has responded- Chupik is in a special detention centre in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, presumably awaiting deportation.
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