All but one of the activists have been released on condition they appear in court to be charged with an administrative offence. This is a less serious offence and normally results in a formal warning or a fine.
The last squatter, whom the St Petersburg Investigative Committee has reported to be a 20-year old college student from Tajikistan, has been remanded for two months in St Petersburg’s notorious Kresty prison, suspected of violence against a police officer.
Details about fundraising for his defence will be posted shortly.
For background please see:
Source : avtonom.org
Photo reportage of the eviction: http://lenta.ru/photo/2013/02/05/squat/#0
Squat blog (in Russian): http://spasisohrani.livejournal.com/
video (in Russian) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAcslamlh4U
source: https://avtonom.org/en/freenews/violent-squat-eviction-st-petersburg-thr…
