Russia: several opponents attacked, Evgueni Roizman released

Opponent Evgueni Roizman, August 25, 2022, the day of his appearance in court in Yekaterinburg.

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The day of August 24 was not only marked by the six months of the dispatch of Russian soldiers to Ukraine.

Several figures of the opposition to power have either been indicted in court or attacked, a sign of a climate of violence against civil society.

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With our correspondent in Moscow,

Igor Kaliapin is not just a famous Russian anti-torture activist.

Founder of an NGO dissolved in June, he is also a figure well enough known and recognized in Russia to have a seat on the Advisory Council for Human Rights at the Kremlin.

His evening of Wednesday August 24 ended in the hospital: his attacker tried to cut his face and strangle him.

Igor Kaliapin did not meet the individual in the street, but during a birthday party.

This friend of friend, who beat him badly, claimed to be a policeman, he said.

Sergei Burtsev also ended up in hospital on Wednesday, with bruises, abrasions and a broken spine.

The candidate for the local elections for the Communist Party says he was attacked on a sidewalk by a stranger " 

 ".

Arrested on Wednesday and prosecuted for "discrediting the armed forces",

faced the investigators.

This Thursday, August 25, the judge released him.

But the opponent, former mayor of Yekaterinburg, is banned from appearing at public events and banned from communicating with anyone except his relatives, his lawyer and investigators.

The ex-mayor of Yekaterinburg will therefore no longer be able to say on Twitter, banned in Russia but accessible by VPN, all the evil he thinks of what he refuses to call the “special operation in Ukraine”.

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