Russian protesters detained at pro-Navalny rallies say police threatened and intimidated them: 'The regime has shown its teeth'

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Peter Sokovykh recalls a police officer screaming into his face as he found himself in a tiny room with six security officers in a St. Petersburg police station.

"Do you know that we can beat you so hard that you will be urinating blood? And there won't be any traces -- you won't be able to prove anything,"

"We will lock you up for 5 years. We'll put you in a cell where inmates will rape you again and again. Is this what you want? No? Then tell us!" Sokovykh said the officer demanded. In recent weeks, Russian authorities have detained around 11,000 people at demonstrations to support Navalny, according to OVD-Info, an independent site that monitors arrests.

Both Kuznetsov and Klementyev appeared in court after two days of detention. Judges sentenced them each to 10 days in jail for taking part in unauthorized rallies. Russian journalists pressed the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov in a conference call with reporters to comment on what one journalist called"probably the biggest repressions modern Russia has seen," citing mass detentions and mistreatment of journalists covering the protests.

 

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