UPDATE on the detained squatters in St Petersburg

For background please see:

 http://avtonom.org/en/freenews/violent-squat-eviction-st-petersburg-three-activists-face-10-years-prison

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.