Anti-war protests resume in Russia, 100 protesters detained

ROMAN PETRENKO - SATURDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER 2022, 15:09 Protests against the war in Ukraine and against the forced mobilisation of Russian citizens resumed in cities across Russia on Saturday, 24 September.  Source: OVD-Info, the independent media project focusing on human rights and political persecutions in Russia; Meduza, the Russian media outlet based in Latvia

Details: At the time of writing, there is information about protesters who have been detained in the cities of Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Chita and Khabarovsk.

OVD-Info reports that as of 15:00 on 24 September, 98 Russian citizens have been detained. [At the time this article was translated, 15:43, the number had increased to 118 - ed.].

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Background:

• The Kremlin-appointed authorities in occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson oblasts and the city of Melitopol (Zaporizhzhia Oblast) announced on 23 September that they had started referendums on merging the captured territories of Ukraine with Russia.
• The Office of the President of Ukraine assured Russia and its accomplices in the occupied territories of Ukraine that sham referendums will not let the occupiers legitimise the seizure of Ukrainian lands.
• In Alchevsk, the Russian occupying authorities take into account even the "votes" of those who are either in captivity or have died, as Serhii Haidai, Head of the Oblast Military Administration, said.

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