Activist Artem Kamardin, who was previously beaten and raped by police officers who came to detain him, was denied hospitalisation, his attorney Leonid Solovyev told Novaya Gazeta. Europe.
“Ambulance workers said that they wanted to hospitalise him at night, but in the morning, we’ve found out that he’s at the detention centre. The investigator said that Artem’s concussion had not been confirmed, allegedly. His vision is becoming cloudy, and they say it wasn’t confirmed,” the attorney said.
At night, the ambulance team diagnosed Kamardin with a concussion, a closed head injury, thoracic bruising and multiple abrasions on his face. The paramedics examined Kamardin in the presence of his attorney, who has the doctor’s report confirming the diagnosis. The team of Novaya Gazeta. Europe has also seen the document.
Yesterday, police came to the flat where Kamardin, Alexandra Popova and Alexander Menyukov live. Their attorney was not allowed to go inside due to the police officers carrying out “a room inspection”.
Law enforcement officers “beat Kamardin severely and put a dumbbell in his anal opening”. Afterwards, they made him record a video apology for saying “Glory to Kievan Rus, Novorossiya — suck dick” (or New Russia, this is how the Russian propaganda refers to Ukraine’s southern and eastern regions — translator’s note). He was then taken to a police station. An ambulance came to examine him during the night.
Kamardin was named a suspect in the case of inciting hatred or enmity with the threat of using violence. Nikolay Dayneko, a participant of the Mayakovsky poetry readings, was detained for 48 hours. Like Kamardin, he is suspected of inciting hatred or enmity with the threat of using violence. Activist Yegor Shtovba became a suspect under the same article.
Activist Alexander Menyukov, who was also in the apartment with Kamardin and Popova when the police came, was released from the Investigative Committee after an interrogation. He is a witness in the case of inciting hatred. According to OVD-Info, a Russian human rights group that monitors political arrests, doctors documented multiple bruises around his right ear, left wrist and back.
