In the state Duma asked the interior Ministry to explain the detention of teenagers in China-city

The State Duma Committee for the Protection of Family, Paternity, Motherhood and Childhood asked the Interior Ministry to explain the circumstances of the detention of minors on Kitay-gorod in the center of Moscow. The Chairman of the Committee Nina Ostanina sent a corresponding letter to the Minister of internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev (at the disposal of RBC).

The MP asked for information on the purposes and procedure for conducting raids, the total number of detainees and the grounds for registration of administrative materials on them. The Committee also asked how many administrative materials had been prepared and how many had been released without them.

Separately, Ostanina requested data on detained minors: how many of them were made protocols and on what grounds, who was sent to temporary detention centers for juvenile offenders, who is on preventive registration or is a student.

In addition, the head of the committee asked to check reports of the use of physical force against detainees and assess whether police officers complied with the requirements of the law.

The deputy, citing media publications, said that the legal guardians of minors were also hampered by access to the departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Basmanny and Tagansky districts, where teenagers were brought. Some detainees, as reported in the press, spent more than three hours in police departments and vans. It was also reported that the parents of minors were not timely informed about the whereabouts of their children and the reason for delivery to the department.

RBC sent a request to the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.

On November 7, police raided Kitay-gorod in central Moscow. The Ministry of Internal Affairs explained it with preventive measures to maintain public order and suppress administrative offenses, including drinking alcohol in public places. REN TV reported that parents estimated the number of teenagers detained could be as high as 300.

Witnesses told RBC how the arrests took place. According to the mother of one of the teenagers, her son was taken while walking around the city center. He offered “a little resistance”, after which, according to the woman, police officers twice hit him in the stomach “They were put in some car, then they were handed over to another car and began to transport to different departments.” They didn’t see him, they said, “Wait.”.

Another teenager said he and his friends were stopped on their way to a clothing store. According to him, they “did not drink, did not smoke, nothing”, but the police asked them to go with them, and then brought in a van to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Tagansky district. There, the teenagers spent about an hour and a half, after which, according to the interlocutor of RBC, they were issued summons to the military enlistment office.

Another detainee reported that he and friends were taken to buses after checking documents and then taken to the police station. “We wanted to turn around and leave with friends: there were three of us and two others with us. They took us by the jackets, the staff told us to follow them. We go to the buses, we're checked. Then they brought it to the department. The department had to wait for the parents, sign the documents. They let him go home. It lasted three hours, I guess. I wasn't given anything. We were just walking, he said.

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