People detained on suspicion of organizing, as the FSB claims, a terrorist attack against the leaders of Roskomnadzor, may be participants in the anti-embargo “Scarlet Swan” movement. This is the conclusion reached by the Human Rights Project “Part One”.
Using software, human rights activists compared the voice of one of the detainees who appeared in the operational video of the Federal Security Service (FSB) with the voice of the director of the Scarlet Swan channel, Sofia Čepek, and found a “high percentage of similarity.”
In addition, the First Department notes that the FSB report stated that the arrest occurred on April 18. On the same day before I mentioned “Rain,” the four members of the Crimson Swan stopped communicating. According to the TV channel, on April 20, Çipek received 15 days of administrative detention under the riot clause.
to update. Active member of the Scarlet Swan Movement I mentioned “Important Stories” On the condition of anonymity, the people arrested by the Federal Security Service have no connection to the movement. At the same time, he stressed that participant in the movement, Sofia Chepek, is subject to administrative detention. Sofia Chepek’s mother in an interview with the agency maleAnd that her daughter “is not detained, she is at home, and everything is fine.” She also denied that they came to search her. Her mother explained that the girl did not contact her, saying that she had changed her phone number.
The Scarlet Swan is a telegram chat and anonymous movement that, after a widespread internet blackout began in Russia, called on people to go out in protest.
Representatives of the movement made official requests to organize demonstrations on March 29 in several cities, but they were rejected everywhere. After that, the Scarlet Swan called on its supporters not to participate in unauthorized marches.
The FSB announced on the morning of April 24 that a week earlier, it had thwarted a “terrorist attack against the leaders of Roskomnadzor.” According to the department, seven people were arrested, and the alleged leader of the group allegedly “presented armed resistance using firearms” and was killed.