Russian police have arrested even children who were protesting peacefully “anti-war” in front of the Ukrainian embassy.
According to Newsweek on the 1st (local time), Alexandra Arkhipova, a lecturer at the Russian State University, posted on Facebook on the day “Children, War, and Police Cars” the images of children arrested by the police. disclosed.
Russian children arrested by police during protests. Facebook snippet In the photo, three children in a police convoy are seated in a chair with firm expressions on their faces. Two boys stare into the air with a poster in their hands that read “HET BOЙHE” (Anti-War in Russian). The poster, which looks like a handmade piece of A4 paper, has a picture of ‘Russian flag + Ukrainian flag = ♥.’ Another girl is also sitting holding the poster and a flower bouquet in her hand. Her child’s eyes and the tip of her nose are red, as if she’s already shed tears. In another video released by Archipova, the girl clasped the hand of an adult who had reached out over the cages of her escort car and cried out in fear of her.
A child arrested by the police during a protest cries and complains of fear. Facebook snippet According to Archipova, five children were arrested by the police, including two children not pictured. All are children between the ages of 7 and 11. They were planting flowers at the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow to honor Ukrainians who died in the Russian invasion.
The children’s mothers were also present at the scene, but the police took them to the police station, took their cell phones, and separated them from the children. In the process, the police are known to have threatened the women by depriving them of custody of their children.
All of the families have now been released, but the trial is inevitable, Archipova said. He urged journalists and human rights activists to pay attention, saying he had no idea what the children were charged with.
Correspondent Kim So-young, Donga.com sykim41@donga.com
