In Moscow, a Ukrainian woman who demanded that a case be opened against law enforcement officers who beat her brother has been detained.

In Moscow, at the building of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Yulia Melnychenko, a resident of North Ossetia, was detained when she staged a solo picket in response to security forces refusing to open a criminal case against police officers who had beaten her brother. She reported this to OVD-Info herself.

The woman stood with a placard reading: “It started with beatings. It ended with beatings, falsifications, fabricated cases, confiscation of property, etc. Or not? Stop the repression!”

Melnychenko links the pressure on her family to their Ukrainian background. She noted that the Prosecutor General’s Office has not been considering complaints for a long time now.

“It all started in 2019, after my brother, Rostislav Melnychenko, ended up in hospital with three jaw fractures after being beaten by police officer Mukhamed Uligov because my brother, as a pedestrian in a residential area, did not yield right of way to Uligov’s car in the yard. However, instead of investigating this crime, apart from other abuses, we received threats of revenge,” Melnychenko told OVD-Info.

15:08 At the police station, Yulia Melnychenko’s placard was confiscated, she was issued a warning, and released without a report.