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[KavkazUzel] Mikhail Bormotov was detained in Sochi at the monument to victims of repression, where he came on the day of Alexei Navalny’s funeral with flowers and a portrait of the oppositionist. The security forces issued a warning and released him, Bormotov himself said today.
As the " Caucasian Knot " wrote, on March 1, a farewell to Alexei Navalny was held in Moscow, and then his funeral. A kilometer-long line lined up at the “Quiet My Sorrows” church, where Navalny’s funeral service took place. In different regions, including North Ossetia, by 16.00 Moscow time, security forces detained at least 21 people in connection with Navalny’s funeral, human rights activists reported.
On February 16, Alexei Navalny died in a colony after, according to a statement from the Federal Penitentiary Service, his condition sharply worsened. Residents of Russian cities, including the North Caucasian Federal District and Southern Federal District, were persecuted for attempting to lay flowers in memory of Navalny at memorials to victims of political repression.
On March 1, security forces in Sochi detained Mikhail Bormotov at the monument to victims of political repression, Bormotov himself told the human rights project “OVD-Info” today*.
According to Bormotov, he was with a portrait of Alexei Navalny and flowers. At the security department, an employee twice tried to snatch flowers from a detainee and then threw them away, according to a publication posted on the website of the human rights project.
“At least three other people were detained along with the man. All of them had their phones confiscated, but the security forces did not draw up any documents. Bormotov was photographed and his fingerprints were taken. After that, the man was given a warning and an explanation was taken from him, and then he was released,” human rights activists reported.
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