Moscow police call a weekend sweep of hundreds of young people a ‘preventive measure.’ Detainees report beatings, military summonses, and pressure to sign army contracts.
Verified: 4 outlets in 2 countries have reported this story since Nov 8.
On the evening of November 7, police carried out a mass roundup in Moscow’s Kitai-Gorod neighborhood. By the most widely cited estimates, 150 to 200 people were detained in total (though some reports put the number at 300), most of them young people, including minors. It was a planned raid: around 8 p.m., 10 police vans pulled up to Gorka Park on Bolshoi Spasoglinishchevsky Lane, and police loaded young people into them. Eyewitnesses said police were rounding up “anyone and everyone.”
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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same November 7 Moscow police roundup of young people, with the same reported detainee accounts of coerced military contract signings and beatings, and its figure of over 200 detai
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