What we know about the detention of hundreds of teenagers in Moscow

What we know about the detention of hundreds of teenagers in Moscow

Police detained more than a hundred people during a “preventive raid” in the Kitay-Gorod area. Witnesses say they rounded up people indiscriminately. Most were released after their details were recorded, but some were fined and given summonses to military enlistment offices.

The teenagers were given no water in the police vans and had no way to use the bathroom; some were beaten. Even Yekaterina Mizulina, head of the Safe Internet League, spoke up for them.

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Hundreds of teenagers detained in Moscow’s Kitay-Gorod area. They were held for hours without water; some were beaten, while others were given military summonses

On the evening of November 7, police carried out mass detentions in the Kitay-Gorod area. According to the most widely cited estimates, 150–200 people were detained in total (though some reports put the number at 300), most of them young people, including minors. It was a planned…