Police detain over 100 protesters against mobilisation in Makhachkala
UKRAINSKA PRAVDA – MONDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 2022, 03:27
At least 101 people have been detained in Makhachkala (the capital of the Republic of Dagestan, a federal subject of the Russian Federation) during protests against mobilisation.
Source: OVD-Info, an independent media project on human rights and political persecutions in Russia; Reuters
Details: OVD-Info rights monitor expressed their concern with the footage of "very tough detentions" emerging from Makhachkala.
BBC News Russian estimates that at least 301 military personnel from Dagestan have been killed in the war against Ukraine. This is 10 times more than the number of soldiers from the Russian capital Moscow, which has a population five times greater than that of Dagestan.
Previously: Arrests and clashes with the police took place at an anti-mobilisation demonstration in Makhachkala. Shots were heard, and protesters were trying to help detainees to fight off police.
Background:
- Residents of the village of Endirey in the Republic of Dagestan blocked the Khasavyurt-Makhachkala highway with an anti-mobilisation protest on the afternoon of Sunday, 25 September. The police opened fire into the air.
- Sergey Melikov, Head of the Republic of Dagestan, said that "mistakes have been made" in the mobilisation rollout in the region. He reported that among those conscripted were people who should not have been called up according to official criteria, including students, fathers of large families with young infants, and "boys who had never in their entire life held a machine gun in their arms".
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